How Late It Was, How Late

Name: How Late It Was, How Late
Author: James Kelman

by James Kelman

A blind man's interior monologue narrates his struggle with independence and isolation

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James Kelman

Scottish novelist whose How Late It Was, How Late won the Booker Prize despite controversy over its use of Glaswegian vernacular. His fiction gives uncompromising voice to the dispossessed of working-class Scotland. He is the most politically radical voice in contemporary Scottish literature.

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