TY - BOOK AU - Sillitoe,Alan TI - The loneliness of the long-distance runner SN - 0452269083 AV - PR6037.I55 L56 1960 PY - 1960/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Working class KW - Fiction KW - Short stories, English KW - 20th century KW - Manners and customs KW - fast KW - Great Britain KW - Social life and customs KW - Nottingham (England) KW - England KW - Nottingham KW - Short stories KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - 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; Also issued online N2 - 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 ER -