A great scottish novel this one. A story about a serious fuck up called Sammy who manages to end up in a cell after being beat to fuck by some coppers. He leaves the cop shop blind, without any money, with no idea where his girlfriend has gone or what happened in the last few days. This is just the first 50 pages, a hard slog for comprehension and sometimes just existence ensures for our poor protagonist Miserable and paranoid in parts, but also quite upbeat with a constant inner monologue in broad Glaswegian providing some funny insights. There is certainly some social commentary particularly with parts involving government procedure and bureaucracy,but you can't help but feel at times Sammy is his own self pitying worst enemy. Good gritty Scottish socialist novel though.
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