The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

SILLITOE, Alan

SILLITOE, Alan The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner

W.H.Allen, 1959.

First edition. Original green cloth with gilt title in pictorial dustwrapper. A fine copy with an ownership name to the front endpaper in a near fine dustwrapper.

An Angry Young Man without the obsessiveness of John Osborne or the slightly plummy vowels of Kingsley Amis. (Cult Fiction)
Nine short stories of which, the title story being the author's most celebrated piece of writing, which was filmed by Tony Richardson in 1962.

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