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Language: English
Published by Penguin Books, 1978
- Softcover
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The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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- Title
- Saville
- Author
- Storey, David
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Publication year
- 1978
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0140046119
- ISBN 13
- 9780140046113
- Item weight
- 181 grams
Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
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Review
"If you haven't read David Storey's 1976 winner Saville read it at once, it is the best of all the Bookers" (Observer)
"A tremendous novel" (The Economist)
""Saville" is a splendid novel, replete with virtues beyond its appeal to those otherwise undiscriminating readers who demand stories about nice people." (Peter S. Prescott Newsweek)
"Mesmerically readable... A revelation" (The Times)
"A marvellousl evocation of place and character... This is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" (Daily Telegraph)
"A tremendous novel" (The Economist)
""Saville" is a splendid novel, replete with virtues beyond its appeal to those otherwise undiscriminating readers who demand stories about nice people." (Peter S. Prescott Newsweek)
"Mesmerically readable... A revelation" (The Times)
"A marvellousl evocation of place and character... This is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" (Daily Telegraph)
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.