How Late It Was, How Late.
by KELMAN, James
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- Hardcover
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- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
London / New York: Secker and Warburg / W. W. Norton & Company, 1994 / 1995. Signed on the title page by James Kelman. FIrst U.K. Edition / Fourth printing used as First U.S. edition / First Advance Copy. Black paper-covered boards. Fine with some tanning to the pages in very fine dust jacket. Winner of the Booker Prize. Fourth U.K. Printing used as the advance copy for the First Us Edition, with a label from Norton pasted on the front of the dust jacket.
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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- Orpheus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17905
- Title
- How Late It Was, How Late.
- Author
- KELMAN, James
- Format/Binding
- Black paper-covered boards.
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIrst U.K. Edition / Fourth printing used as First U.S. edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg / W. W. Norton & Company,
- Place of Publication
- London / New York:
- Date Published
- 1994 / 1995. Signed on the title
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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