A Disaffection
Synopsis
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.
Author Biography
James Kelman was born in Glasgow in 1946. His early fiction includes the short-story collections An Old Pub Near the Angel (1973) and Not Not While the Giro (1983), and the novel The Busconductor Hines (1984). His novel A Disaffection (1989) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. How late it was, how late (1994) won the Booker Prize for Fiction. He is the author of a television screenplay, The Return (1991), and has written plays for radio and theatre. He is currently attached to Goldsmiths College, London, and the University of Glasgow. James Kelman lives in Glasgow.
