How Late It Was, How Late

By James Kelman,

Book cover of How Late It Was, How Late

Book description

One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's shoes and trying to remember his two-day drinking binge. He gets in a scrap with some soldiers and revives in a jail cell, badly beaten and, he slowly discovers, completely blind. And things get worse:…


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1 author picked How Late It Was, How Late as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

It was an extraordinary use of the stream of consciousness style. The story of a Glaswegian drunk took us to great depths of humanity, demonstrating the value of everyone.

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