How Late It Was, How Late - Brossura

Kelman, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 039332799X ISBN 13: 9780393327991

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2005

Riassunto

Waking up after a two-day drinking binge, ex-convict and shoplifter Sammy gets in a fight, lands in jail, goes blind, loses his girlfriend, and becomes embroiled in the Glasgow welfare system. Reprint. Winner of the 1994 Booker Prize.

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L'autore:

James Kelman is the author of novels, plays, and essays, including Busted Scotch and You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free. He lives in Glasgow, Scotland.

Product Description:

Winner of the Booker Prize. "A work of marvelous vibrance and richness of character."--"New York Times Book Review" 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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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 039332799X
• ISBN 13: 9780393327991
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 374