The Busconductor Hines
- ISBN-10
- 0904919773
- ISBN-13
- 9780904919776
- Category
- Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts
- Pages
- 237
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984-01-01
- Author
- James Kelman
Description
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.
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