num_pages: 352
description: Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.
language: English
title: A Disaffection
titlecomplete: A Disaffection (Vintage Classics)
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: Trafalgar Square