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The Busconductor Hines is the first published novel of the Scottish writer James Kelman, published in 1984. [1] [2] This novel is the first to be published by Kelman, but it was written after A Chancer. [3]
1 de ene. de 1984 · Incredibly moving and humorous, James Kelman’s first published novel The Busconductor Hines is a raw and searingly honest reading experience. Follow Robert Hines, our busconductor and social philosopher, in a passionate, exploratory novel of working-class oppression and reflection.
27 de ago. de 2020 · The busconductor Hines. by. Kelman, James, 1946-. Publication date. 2007. Topics. Buslines -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- Employees -- Fiction, Manners and customs, Glasgow (Scotland) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Scotland -- Glasgow. Publisher.
Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate to Australia won't come to anything, Robert Hines is a young Glaswegian leading a pretty drab life.
The Busconductor Hines. James Kelman. Polygon, 2007 - Fiction - 282 pages. Living in a bedsit, just coping with the boredom of being a busconductor, and fully aware that his plans to emigrate...
1 de may. de 1985 · James Kelman's novel takes us into the cathartic mind of Rab Hines, bus conductor and social philosopher. Hines is complex, misunderstood and wonderful, but not extraordinary.
The Busconductor Hines is a brilliantly executed, uncompromising slice of the Glasgow scene, a portrait of working-class life which is unheroic but humane.