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The loneliness of the long-distance runner / Alan Silitoe.

By: Sillitoe, Alan.
Publisher: New York, Knopf, 1960Edition: [1st American ed.].Description: 176 pages 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0452269083; 9780452269088; 0307389642; 9780307389640.Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Working class -- Fiction | Short stories, English -- 20th century | Manners and customs | Working class | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction | Nottingham (England) -- Fiction | England -- Nottingham | Great BritainGenre/Form: Fiction. | Short stories. | Fiction. | Short stories. | Fiction. | Short stories.Additional physical formats: Online version:: Loneliness of the long-distance runner.Also issued online.
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.
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.
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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.

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.

Also issued online.

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