How Late it Was Review

Ariel Young
How Late it was How Late tells the story of Sammy a poor, out of work Scotsman who, after a fight with his girlfriend and a weekend of heavy drinking he ends up getting into a fight with some policemen and loses his vision. His inner thoughts are revealed as the reader follows him [...]

How Late It Was, How Late

Tasha Rennie
How Late It Was, How Late Review
                In his Booker Prize winning novel, How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman tells the story of Sammy, a working class ex- convict in Glasgow. Kelman’s stream-of-consciousness narrative begins with Sammy waking up in an alley with no recollection of the past two days. Sammy explains, [...]

How Late It Was, How Late: It Tastes Awful. And It Works

Marta Zemojtel
English 213
“I mean that was something about Sammy, yer man, know what I’m saying, a lot of cunts would have done their box. But he hadnay. He had survived it…..The nightmare was over. So how come he still couldnay see fuck all?”
            It is through the use of such raw language, uninhibited grammar and [...]

How Late it was, How late

Bill Everitt
How late it was, How late (HL) is the compelling story of an unfortunate man within a society which is still trying to establish its self determination.  Sammy Samuels is representative of a larger population of people within Scotland as well as other colonized countries, who have more or less been marginalized as a country [...]

How Late It Was, How Late: Online Discussion

Joey Davis
How Late It Was, How Late tells the story of Sammy, a criminal who wakes up after a weekend of heavy drinking with no memory of the events that have taken place. He is blinded in a struggle with some plainclothes police officers and the novel launches into the story of the next week [...]