Forms of Impatience: Vicki Jarrett’s The Way Out

Citation

McKeever GL (2016) Forms of Impatience: Vicki Jarrett’s The Way Out. Review of: Vicky Jarrett, The Way Out , Glasgow: Freight Books, 2015, 240pp. ISBN: 978-1910449028. Glasgow Review of Books. https://glasgowreviewofbooks.com/2016/07/08/forms-of-impatience-vicki-jarretts-the-way-out/

Abstract
First paragraph: Writing about the poor is a dangerous game. It is, perhaps, the most dangerous game in literature. The exploration of disadvantaged social realities raises a series of (often unhelpful) controversies. What right does the author have to speak? Do they possess an authentic voice? Is this cultural appropriation? Patronisation? Idealisation? What about the audience – who is this for? Is literature by its very nature a bourgeois preserve? The life of the “people” is an elusive and volatile question, and these bristling doubts make things difficult.

Journal
Glasgow Review of Books