How Late It Was, How Late

Paperback edition of the much-derided 1994 Booker-winner. >How Late It Was, How Late< tells the story of Sammy, a Glaswegian ex-con who awakens from a two-day drinking binge to find himself in a police cell and stricken blind. Bizarrely, many people thought this to be no excuse for bad language. Even more bizarrely some sections of the book trade s