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James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines James Kelman: The Busconductor Hines

Robert Hines is a youngish Glaswegian with an eccentrically speculative turn of mind who leads a pretty drab existence, though its 'astounding circumstances are oddly normal'. Living in a no-bedroomed tenement flat, coping with the cold and boredom of bus-conducting and the bloody-mindedness of Head Office, knowingb that emigrating to Australia is only an idle dream, he finds lif to be 'a very perplexing kettle of coconuts'. The compensations are a wife and child, and a gloriously anarchic imagination in the manner of Leopold Bloom.
In this intelligent, funny and wholly original novel, James Kelman provides a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of Glasgow life: the banter of the punters, religion, football, booze, the ponderous lunacy of smoke-filled union meetings. His portrait of working-class life is unheroic but humane, and in The Busconductor Hines he has created a memorably endearing character.

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240 oldal · ISBN: 9781846970399
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Orion, London, 1984
238 oldal · ISBN: 9781857990355

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