by Alan Sillitoe · Plume · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780452269088
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«The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner» is Alan Sillitoe's collection of short stories, published by Plume in paperback (176 pages, in English).
It brings together nine stories about the English working class. The title story follows a teenager in a reformatory who, as a long-distance runner, finds in physical endurance a path of rebellion against those who control him. Other stories portray humble characters facing poverty and adversity with dignity and irony.
The collection originally appeared in 1959 and received the Hawthornden Prize in 1960. This edition is part of the Plume contemporary fiction series.
For readers of twentieth-century British classics seeking short stories with a social outlook and working-class protagonists.
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.
