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How late it was, how late / James Kelman

By:

Kelman, James, 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 2005, c1994.Description: 374 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780393327991

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Black humor (Literature)

DDC classification:

FIC KEL

LOC classification:

PR6061.E518 H69 1996

Summary: 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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC KEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Expurgado/No disponible		000493

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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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