New and Collected Stories

by Alan Sillitoe

Book Overview

With his 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long- Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe brought a poetic new voice to working-class England. Certainly no stranger to the harsh realities of blue-collar life himself, Sillitoe was born one of five children to a poor Nottingham factory family. He left school at age fourteen to find work in the very factories from which his father found himself unemployed, and began his writing career during a stint in the Royal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078671476X
• ISBN13: 9780786714766
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.6" x 8.3"