This Sporting Life - Softcover

Storey, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784873977 ISBN 13: 9781784873974

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2018

Synopsis

WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION

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

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond.

Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man's life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction.

About this title

About the Author:

David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. He wrote fifteen plays and eleven novels, including This Sporting Life which was made into a film starring Richard Harris. His work 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 died in 2017.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784873977
• ISBN 13: 9781784873974
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304