The Busconductor Hines
James Kelman(Author)
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 20. October 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-85799-035-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85799-035-5 (9781857990355)
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Previous edition
James Kelman
Busconductor Hines
Book
05/1985
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
€24.90
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