num_pages: 337
description: Patrick Doyle is a 29-year-old teacher in an ordinary school. Disaffected, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, Patrick begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. A Disaffection is the apparently straightforward story of one week in a man's life in which he decides to change the way he lives. Under the surface, however, lies a brilliant and complex examination of class, human culture and character written with irony, tenderness,enormous anger and, above all, the honesty that has marked James Kelman as one of the most important writers in contemporary Britain.
language: English
title: A Disaffection
titlecomplete: A Disaffection
characters: Patrick Doyle
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Literary Fiction, Scotland, Fiction, Contemporary, British Literature
ratings_count: 655
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Picador