How Late It Was How Late

The classic BOOKER PRIZE winning novel

AvJames Kelman

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Engelska, 2012

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Sammy wakes up after a drunken blackout to find himself blind, injured, wanted by police and alone in Glasgow. Winner of the Booker Prize, How Late It Was, How Late begins after a lost weekend. Sammy wakes battered, shoeless and missing time. A confrontation with police leaves him beaten, arrested and suddenly blind. Back on the streets of Glasgow, he tries to understand what has happened, where his girlfriend Helen has gone, and how to get through systems designed to wear him down. Medical offices, benefits forms, police pressure and half-remembered dealings close around him, while his voice pushes forward in profane, funny, furious Scots vernacular. James Kelman’s classic is a landmark in literary fiction; social realism with an experimental voice. This remains a passionate, uncompromising song of a book. ‘A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song from a book’ Guardian

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-09-30
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781448104932
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. His books include Not not while the giro, The Busconducter Hines, A Chancer, Greyhound for Breakfast, which won the 1987 Cheltenham Prize, and A Disaffection, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and How late it was, how late, which won the 1994 Booker Prize.

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"Beautiful, spirited thoughts hard up against the old brute truths...enormous artistic and social depth...James Kelman's best book yet" Guardian "A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book" Independent "Forging a wholly distinctive style from the bruised cadences of demotic Glaswegian, Kelman renders the hidden depths of ordinary lives in sardonic, abrasive prose which is more revealing of feelings that could ever be expected...as uplifting a novel as one could ever hope to read" Sunday Telegraph "Gritty, realistic and bleak, but the overall tone is strangely positive. The fast pace of the narrative, Kelman's dry humour and the indomitable spirit combine to provide a liberating read" Big Issue