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A Disaffection
Author: James Kelman
Original price was: £10.95.£5.00Current price is: £5.00.
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A Disaffection follows Patrick Doyle, a young Glasgow teacher growing increasingly alienated from his work, relationships and surroundings. Over the course of a week, his frustration builds into quiet rebellion shaped by drink, obsession and disconnection. For readers of introspective literary fiction focused on working-class life, language and inner turmoil.
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James Kelman’s A Disaffection follows Patrick Doyle through one increasingly unstable week as he reaches breaking point with teaching, loneliness and the life he feels he has sleepwalked into. His…
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In an ordinary comprehensive school, Patrick Doyle is twenty nine and teaching a life that feels boxed in. He is isolated, frustrated, and growing more bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, a daily grind of expectations and compliance that offers little room to breathe.
As the pressure builds, Patrick begins a rebellion, not as a grand gesture but as a slow unravelling. Drink becomes part of the rhythm, and so does the ache of his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher. The school day continues, but something in him has shifted, and he can no longer pretend he is only passing through.
A Disaffection follows that drift towards refusal, as Patrick searches for a way to live that does not require him to keep swallowing what he cannot accept.
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