Nominee · The Booker Prize 1989
A Disaffection
by James Kelman
1989 novel by James Kelman
Patrick Doyle, a Glasgow schoolteacher drowning in despair, can no longer control his students or his life and retreats into the world of corrugated cardboard pipes--a musical sanctuary of his own invention.
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