ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1998
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Autor: James Kelman
Izdavac: Vintage, 1998.
Paperback, 373 pages

`Ye wake in a corner and stay there hoping yer body will disappear, the thoughts smothering ye; these thoughts; but ye want to remember and face up to things, just something keeps ye from doing it, why can ye no do it; the words filling yer head: then the other words; there`s something wrong; there`s something far far wrong; ye`re no a good man, ye`re just no a good man.` From the moment Sammy wakes slumped in a park corner, stiff and sore after a two-day drunk and wearing another man`s shoes, James Kelman`s Booker Prize-winning novel How Late it Was, How Late loosens a torrent of furious stream-of-consciousness prose that never lets up. Beaten savagely by Glasgow police, the shoplifting ex-con Sammy is hauled off to jail, where he wakes to a world gone black. For the rest of the novel he stumbles around the rainy streets of Glasgow, brandishing a sawed-off mop handle and trying in vain to make sense of the nightmare his life has become. Sammy`s girlfriend disappears; the police question him for a crime they won`t name; the doctor refuses to admit that he`s blind; and his attempts to get disability compensation tangle in Kafkaesque red tape. Gritty, profane, darkly comic, and steeped in both American country music and working class Scottish vernacular, Sammy`s is a voice the reader won`t soon forget. --Mary Park