“I knew that after writing this sweeping family portrait that goes over about 40 years in the Bain family’s history, that for my next novel, I wanted to write something that was very focused, that was quite propulsive, and quite edited in the scope and the time that we spend with the characters. And so, […]
How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
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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How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel
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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ISBN-13: | 9780393327991 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 10/17/2005 |
Edition description: | Reprint |
Pages: | 388 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.00(d) |
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