How Late It Was, How Late
of James Kelman
Description
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind. And things get worse: his girlfriend disappears, the police question him for a crime they won't name, and his stab at disability compensation embroils him in the Kafkaesque red tape of the welfare bureaucracy. Told in the utterly uncensored language of the Scottish working class, this is a dark and subtly political parable of struggle and survival, rich with irony and black humor.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384 pages
- Publisher W. W. Norton Company
- Publication Date October 17th 2005
- First Publication March 28th 1994
- Language English
- ISBN 9780393327991
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Glasgow, Scotland']
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