The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Reissue of the classic collection of short stories from Sillitoe, originally published in 1960, when it won the Hawthornden Prize. Zusammenfassung From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alan Sillitoe
• Editore: Harper Perennial UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 16.07.2007
• EAN: 9780007255603
• ISBN: 978-0-00-725560-3
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 195 mm x 12 mm
• Serie: Modern Classics; Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Modern Classics; Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary