- English fiction, Scotland, fiction, Teachers, fiction, Fiction, general
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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Contemplative, prestige, contemporary and intimate.
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- James Kelman
- First published
- 1989
- Pages
- 337
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Picador, Picador USA
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780330307369
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