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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Synopsis

From the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.

The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running.

A groundbreaking work, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007255603
Publication date: 16th July 2007
Author: Alan Sillitoe
Publisher: Harper Perennial an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 18 pages
Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Narrative theme: Identity / belonging
Narrative theme: Social issues
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