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How late it was, how late - James Kelman

"Literary vandalism" and "frankly, crap" was the high praise for Kelman's only Booker Prize winning novel, about Sammy, a middle aged man coming to terms with his blindness.

Submitted by flaneur on September 19, 2013

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