How late it was, how late
By: James Kelman
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780393038170
Subjects: Blind; Ex-convicts; Fiction
Description: In Scotland, the portrait of a petty crook who had one run-in with police too many. It is a series of reflections as he sits in jail, contemplating his fate. He had been in trouble before, but this time it's different, the latest brawl with police cost him his eyesight. Now in addition to all his other troubles he is blind.
Notes: Man Booker Prize for Fiction, 1994.