A Disaffection

Zusatztext

Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.

Autorenportrait

James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. His books include<i>Not not while the giro</i>,<i>The Busconductor Hines</i>,<i>A Chancer</i>,<i>Greyhound for breakfast</i>, which won the 1987 Cheltenham Prize, and<i>A Disaffection</i>, which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. His most recent novel,<i>How late it was, how late</i>won the 1994 Booker Prize. James Kelman lives in Glasgow with his wife and two daughters.

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