**WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 'Remarkable' - Colm Tรณibรญn, author of _Brooklyn_ 'Like _Finnegans Wake_ , only readable'_\- The Times_** In _A Shock_ , a clutch of more or less loosely connected characters appear, disappear and reappear. They are all of them on the frin
A Disaffection: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1989
โ Scribed by James Kelman
- Book ID
- 100143695
- Publisher
- Random House;Vintage Digital
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 214 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0099283093
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
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.
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