How Late It Was, How Late
by James Kelman
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Very Good.
- ISBN 10
- 0385315600
- ISBN 13
- 9780385315609
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Slight toning, else contents appear as unblemished in wraps displaying moderate surface/edge/wear, as shown.
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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Synopsis
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946 and is an influential writer of novels, plays and political essays. In his 1994 Booker Man prizewinning novel, How Late It Was, How Late , we are introduced to the protagonist, Sammy Samuels. An ex-convict with a penchant for shoplifting, Sammy awakens in a lane and tries to remember the two-day drinking binge that landed him there. Within the first few minutes of the story he is beaten blind by police and struggles to get by in a world of unrelenting tension and danger. This realistic portrayal of a man, written in stream of consciousness style is an unwavering novel that the reader won’t easily forget.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eve's Reads (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- #2753-31719AK
- Title
- How Late It Was, How Late
- Author
- James Kelman
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback,
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Very Good.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Ed, 1st Prtg
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385315600
- ISBN 13
- 9780385315609
- Publisher
- Delta Trade Packs/Dell Publishing Group Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- March 1996
- Pages
- 374
- Keywords
- Black Humor
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