How Late It Was, How Late
by:
James Kelman (author)
Winner of the Booker Prize: "A work of marvelous vibrance and richness of character."--New York Times Book ReviewOne 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...
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Winner of the Booker Prize: "A work of marvelous vibrance and richness of character."--New York Times Book ReviewOne 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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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393327991 (039332799X)
Publish date: October 17th 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Scotland
Definitely well done and the premise of life after the lost weekend (blind) is a nice launch, but in the end I found this a bit of a slog.