num_pages: 337
description: Patrick Doyle, a Glasgow schoolteacher drowning in despair, can no longer control his students or his life and retreats into the world of corrugated cardboard pipes--a musical sanctuary of his own invention
language: English
title: A Disaffection
titlecomplete: A Disaffection
characters: Patrick Doyle
genres: British Literature, Novels, Scotland, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 655
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux