The Story
From the author of âSaturday Night and Sunday Morningâ 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, âThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runnerâ captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoeâs 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.
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From the author of âSaturday Night and Sunday Morningâ 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, âThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runnerâ captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoeâs 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.
