by Alan Sillitoe · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007792146
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«The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner» is the fiction book by Alan Sillitoe, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (176 pages, in English).
A working-class youth from postwar England, sent to a reformatory, turns athletics into a form of resistance against a system that marginalizes him. His training for a long-distance race becomes filled with dilemmas about freedom, rebellion, and identity.
This edition belongs to the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series and is a reissue published in 2007.
Will appeal to readers of modern classics and British social fiction.
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
