This Sporting Life - Softcover

Storey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140016740 ISBN 13: 9780140016741

Publisher: Penguin, 1976

Synopsis

Paperback in good condition. A real oddity - A 1976 copy of Storey's sporting life with a note laid in, to Bill Webb (whose name is penned to the half-title page) from Lindsay Anderson who was the director of the 1963 film of the book. Covers are scuffed and worn. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block, endpapers and page edges are tanned. Page block head is lightly blemished, and first few pages are bumped at the upper leading edge. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW

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Review

Extraordinarily mature technically as well as emotionally "The Sunday Times" The best novel about sport I ve read. Caryl Phillips, author of "The Final Passage" [An] impressive first novel. "The New York Times" An absorbing writer. "The New Yorker""

-Extraordinarily mature--technically as well as emotionally- --The Sunday Times

-The best novel about sport I've read.- --Caryl Phillips, author of The Final Passage

-[An] impressive first novel.- --The New York Times

-An absorbing writer.- --The New Yorker

"Extraordinarily mature--technically as well as emotionally" --The Sunday Times

"The best novel about sport I've read." --Caryl Phillips, author of The Final Passage

"[An] impressive first novel." --The New York Times

"An absorbing writer." --The New Yorker

Book Description

An astute and compelling story about a rough and ready Rugby League football hero in an industrial northern city.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140016740
• ISBN 13: 9780140016741
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256