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How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman


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How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman

 
Description: ISBN 0749398833 / Author: James Kelman / Genre: Fiction / Winner of the Booker Prize 1994 / An ex-convict finds his plans to make a new ... more
How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman ... start soon run into problems.

Newest Review: ... against the walls that hold them prisoner. We see these walls and feel them, they are both self-imposed and of the situation. ... more

 ... They are walls erected over decades of governmental neglect and the restraints of the culture. They are a stunted generation, too young to have enjoyed posterity and too old to grasp at it now. Opportunities withheld and opportunities missed. Yet for all of this they are alive, seething with emotion and ready to fight with it. They smack of that thing that stories –with their inherent fraud- usually strip away, they smack of the real. Sammy is typi ...more

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Crowned Review How Late It Was, How Late - James Kelman: The consequences of drained optics (987 words)
by - written on 28/05/03 (Very useful, 459 readings)
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Sammy’s had a hoofing. And it was the polis that did it too. He’d been a wee bit naughty because of the juice and they’d given him a seeing to, a right braying! They’d kicked the living sight out of him. And so here he is, blind. He aches all over, he’s lost his shoes and his recollection of the event is at best non-existent. And then he’s turned out onto the street and “try to be a good lad.” We follow him out to watch his progress. Mr Kelman, bless him helps us along. He knows Sammy’s type. He’s lived around them for years and he knows how they think, how they feel and the lives they live. He ...  Read the complete review

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An epic journey through a wasteland of Glasgow tenements and benefit offices this book does not sound like an easy nor inviting read. But once the prose becomes digestable (which is quite quickly given its unrelenting phonetically rendered profanity) the poignant story of a chancer laid low is enthralling and moving. With rivals such as Irvine to compete with and linguistic experimentation aside this is a far more substantial work than the grindingly faux-revolting excesses of 'Trainspotting' and much more likely to repay the effort of its reading. ...  Read the complete review

 

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