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The loneliness of the long-distance runner.

Title
The loneliness of the long-distance runner.
Author
Sillitoe, Alan
Publication
New York, Knopf, 1960 [c1959]

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176 p.; 21 cm.
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.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Working class > Fiction
  • Great Britain > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction
  • Nottingham (England) > Fiction
Genre/Form
  • Fiction
  • Short stories
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
LCCN
^^^60008227^/L
OCLC
  • 230719
  • SCSB-11277521
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library