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The loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Silitoe.
Publication details: New York, Knopf, 1960 Edition: [1st American ed.]Description: 176 pages 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0452269083
- 9780452269088
- 0307389642
- 9780307389640
- PR6037.I55 L56 1960
- Also issued online.
Contents:
Summary: A Borstal boy and his audacious companions are fresh from reform school and ready to take on the world. Members of the British lower class, they are out to beat the system anyway they can. Nine darkly comic stories of working-class men in 1950s Nottingham.
The loneliness of the long-distance runner -- Uncle Ernest -- Mr. Raynor the school-teacher -- The fishing-boat picture -- Noah's ark -- On Saturday afternoon -- The match -- The disgrace of Jim Scarfedale -- The decline and fall of Frankie Buller.
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The loneliness of the long-distance runner -- Uncle Ernest -- Mr. Raynor the school-teacher -- The fishing-boat picture -- Noah's ark -- On Saturday afternoon -- The match -- The disgrace of Jim Scarfedale -- The decline and fall of Frankie Buller.
A Borstal boy and his audacious companions are fresh from reform school and ready to take on the world. Members of the British lower class, they are out to beat the system anyway they can. Nine darkly comic stories of working-class men in 1950s Nottingham.
Also issued online.
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