THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) - Softcover

Sillitoe

 
9780007255603: THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0007255608 ISBN 13: 9780007255603
Verlag: Harper Perennial, 2007

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From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.

The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running.

A groundbreaking work, ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe’s depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.

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Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928 and left school at 14 to work in various factories. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. His first stories were printed in the ‘Nottingham Weekly Guardian’. In 1958 ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ was published and ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’, which won the Hawthornden prize for Literature, came out the following year. Both these books were made into films.

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From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.

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Verlag
Harper Perennial
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0007255608
ISBN 13 
9780007255603
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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