by JamesKelman (Author)
Living in a no-bedroomed tenement flat, coping with the cold and boredom of busconducting and the bloody-mindedness of Head Office, knowing that emigrating to Australia is only an impossible dream, Robert Hines finds life to be 'a very perplexing kettle of coconuts'. The compensations are a wife and child, and a gloriously anarchic imagination. The Busconductor Hines is a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of the Glasgow scene, a portrait of working-class life which is unheroic but humane.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 07 Jun 2001
ISBN 10: 1857990358
ISBN 13: 9781857990355
Book Overview: James Kelman won the Booker Prize in 1994 Phoenix Paperback edition has been reprinted six times 'A remarkable book...intelligent, exploratory and sometimes very touching' Times Literary Supplement 'Whether Kelman is the new Beckett, or the next Kafka, or the best thing since Zola, or the heir to Pinter, or whatever critics have been calling him recently I've no idea...Perhaps it would be better lower our sights a little and just say that he is one of the most enjoyable writers around' Guardian
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