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Cover of A Disaffection: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1989

A Disaffection: Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 1989

โœ Scribed by James Kelman


Book ID
100143695
Publisher
Random House;Vintage Digital
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
214 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0099283093

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โœฆ 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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