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How Late It Was, How Late

James Kelman

1

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12

score

#533 of 8,085 books · #134 in Crime & Thriller

Won the Booker Prize (1994).

In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.

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Publisher
Secker & Warburg
ISBN-13
9780436232923
Topics
Disability and blindnessCrime and punishmentWorking-class Scottish life

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