by Alan Sillitoe · Hunter Publishing+inc · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586065037
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«The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner» is Alan Sillitoe's collection of short stories, in paperback (176 pages, in English).
Stories set in working-class postwar England. The title story follows a young rebel in a reformatory, where he discovers his talent for long-distance running. Alan Sillitoe portrays alienation, class struggle and rebellion against authority through solitary and marginal characters.
The volume was originally published in 1959 and won the Hawthornden Prize in 1960. This edition dates from 1985 and belongs to the Panther Books series.
Ideal for book clubs and for readers of postwar British fiction, short stories and social realism.
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.
