Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner, The - Hardcover
The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner
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Alan Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in various factories until becoming an air traffic control assistant with the Ministry of Aircraft Production in 1945. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. In 1958, `Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' was published, and `The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner', which won the Hawthornden Prize for literature, came out the following year. Both these books were made into films.
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`I have read nothing to compare with it.' Penelope Mortimer`Sillitoe writes with tremendous energy, and his stories simply tear along.' Daily Telegraph`All the imaginative sympathy in the world can't fake this kind of thing. It must have been lived in, seen, touched, smelled: and we are lucky to have a writer who has come out of it knowing the truth, and having the skill to turn that truth into art.' New Statesman`Graphic, tough, outspoken, informal.' The Times`A beautiful piece of work, confirming Sillitoe as a writer of unusual spirit and great promise.' Guardian`A major writer.' Malcolm Bradbury
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- PublisherW. H. Allen
- Publication date1959
- ISBN 10 0491001908
- ISBN 13 9780491001908
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER
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W. H. Allen, London
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Book Description 8 vo. Pp: 176. ISBN: 0491001908. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Publisher's illustrated and price clipped dust jacket. A reprint of this 1959 collection of short stories, inscribed by author on title page. Very good. Some tanning to the pages, but otherwise a bright clean unmarked copy in VG dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C63737
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The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner
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(1959)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. First edition, second printing. Signed by the author, inscribed to previous owner. Very Good, lacking the dust jacket. Light lean to binding. Spine ends bumped, cloth rubbed at edges with a ding at the rear. Though a second printing, this title is uncommon signed in the original format. Seller Inventory # 160407003
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