# A Disaffection

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- Book: [A Disaffection](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-kelman/a-disaffection) ([A Disaffection.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-kelman/a-disaffection.md))
- Authors: [James Kelman](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-kelman)
- Publisher: Vintage Classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9928-309-6
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2008-06-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher in an ordinary comprehensive school. Isolated, frustrated and increasingly bitter at the system he is employed to maintain, he begins his rebellion, fuelled by drink and his passionate, unrequited love for a fellow teacher.