How late it was, how late / James Kelman.
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TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2005.Description: 373 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 039332799X (pbk.)
- 9780393327991 (pbk.)
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
"First American edition 1995"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, c1994.
In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.