A Disaffection

Name: A Disaffection
Author: James Kelman
ISBN: 9780436232848

James Kelman

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A Disaffection

James Kelman

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#202 of 8,085 books · #98 in Fiction

Won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1989). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 1 other award.

Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated, and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. This is an apparently straightforward story of one week in a man's life in which he decides to change the way he lives. Under the surface, however, lies a brilliant and complex examination of class, human culture, and character written with irony, tenderness, enormous anger, and, above all, the honesty that has marked James Kelman as one of the most important writers in contemporary Britain.

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