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ISBN-10: 039332799X
ISBN-13: 9780393327991
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 10/01/2005
Dimensions: 8.58" L, 5.47" W, 0.97" H

How Late It Was, How Late (Direct)

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Overview

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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"Witty, irreverent and thoroughly engrossing.... Kelman is a major talent, and this is a bold, highly accomplished novel."
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Details

ISBN-10: 039332799X
ISBN-13: 9780393327991
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date: 10/01/2005
Dimensions: 8.58" L, 5.47" W, 0.97" H
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