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‘I have read nothing to compare with it.’ Penelope Mortimer
‘Sillitoe writes with tremendous energy, and his stories simply tear along.’ Daily Telegraph
‘All the imaginative sympathy in the world can’t fake this kind of thing. It must have been lived in, seen, touched, smelled: and we are lucky to have a writer who has come out of it knowing the truth, and having the skill to turn that truth into art.’ New Statesman
‘Graphic, tough, outspoken, informal.’ The Times
‘A beautiful piece of work, confirming Sillitoe as a writer of unusual spirit and great promise.’ Guardian
‘A major writer.’ Malcolm Bradbury
About the Author
Alan Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in various factories until becoming an air traffic control assistant with the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1945. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. 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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- PublisherW.H. Allen / Virgin Books
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 0491001908
- ISBN 13 9780491001908
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition, Second impression, September 1959. Book is very good, clean, tight, and unmarked. Ghosting on the endpapers, foxing on the text block edges and damp stain along the top edge. Jacket is good, 4 cm closed tear at top of front, some foxing along the edges, damp stain along top and spine side of rear of jacket. Unclipped. Seller Inventory # 200774
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