The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Paperback, Re-issue)

From the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.

General

Imprint:	HarperPerennial
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Release date:	July 2007
First published:	July 2007
Authors:	Alan Sillitoe
Dimensions:	197 x 130 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	174
Edition:	Re-issue
ISBN-13:	978-0-00-725560-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-00-725560-8
Barcode:	9780007255603

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