false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171150550m/89208.jpg 89208 9 "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 <I>How Late it Was, How Late</I> 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. <I>--Mary Park</I> 1193963 book 1994 How Late It Was, How Late: A Novel total:310|5:90|4:109|3:71|2:29|1:11| 310 1168 605 51 4 3 false false Fri Apr 11 00:49:36 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 00:49:36 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 08 07:43:47 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 08 07:52:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sat Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sat Mar 22 04:59:39 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 07 21:29:54 -0700 2008
Kelman's writing is so good, it's gold. He seizes the attention span and holds onto...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 13:30:09 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 13:38:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 08:55:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 09:30:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 11:27:43 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 13:40:35 -0800 2009
You’re craving a smoke, missing your girlfriend, and thinking abou...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 08:25:47 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 08:33:38 -0800 2008
Here's what's cool about the book. Scottish working class guy pick...more...]]> 1 1 false false Sun Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1996 Fri Oct 24 11:46:13 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 24 11:51:25 -0700 2008 1 too many 5 1 true false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Mar 01 08:36:24 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 01 08:40:19 -0800 2008 5 1 false false Mon Jul 21 05:19:48 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 01 05:09:34 -0700 2009 2 1 false false Mon Sep 22 11:17:45 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 22 11:19:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 26 09:57:51 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 08 13:06:15 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 28 09:04:35 -0800 2007 Sat Feb 02 03:24:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 28 12:16:59 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 12:02:28 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 24 09:16:44 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 14:39:14 -0800 2009
]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 13 12:34:32 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 12:34:32 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 17:32:46 -0800 2008 Sun Mar 02 17:38:43 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 08:58:30 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 08:59:14 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat May 23 03:06:59 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 11:30:47 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 09 13:57:01 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 13:57:45 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=89208