How Late It Was, How Late Kelman JamesPaperback
How Late It Was, How Late Kelman JamesPaperback 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…
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How Late It Was, How Late Kelman JamesPaperback
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. 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. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind.
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