Flight into Camden - Hardcover

Storey, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224020331 ISBN 13: 9780224020336

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1982

Synopsis

This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed and almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Acclaimed as a remarkable young writer for his first novel, This Sporting Life, David Storey was awarded the 1961 John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for Flight Into Camden. This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorkshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed an almost Lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies of their emotional response to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.

About the Author:

David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. His novels have won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize for Saville. He is also the author of fifteen plays. He lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0224020331
• ISBN 13: 9780224020336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224