The busconductor Hines

About this book

Living in a no-bedroomed tenement flat coping with the cold and boredom of busconducting and the bloody-mindedness of Head Office knowing that emigrating to Australia is only an impossible dream Robert Hines finds life to be a very perplexing kettle of coconuts. The compensations are a wife and child and a gloriously anarchic imagination. The Busconductor Hines is a brilliantly executed uncompromising slice of the Glasgow scene a portrait of working-class life which is unheroic but humane.