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Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
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The title story in this collection of short stories tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting a no-man's land of institutionalized 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.
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
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Allan Sillitoe, Alan Sillitoe
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Saturday night and Sunday morning
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Alan Sillitoe
Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and he's sharp enough to get it. And before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women is local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl in a pub, and Arthur's life ...
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New and Collected Stories
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With his 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long- Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe brought a poetic new voice to working-class England. Certainly no stranger to the harsh realities of blue-collar life himself, Sillitoe was born one of five children to a poor Nottingham factory family. He left school at age fourteen to find work in the very ...
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Birthday
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This sequel to Sillitoe's best-known novel, SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, picks up Arthur Seaton's story many years later, as his wife is dying of cancer. The story expands to include Arthur's brother, Brian, and the woman he loves, who are finally able to get together after her wheelchair-bound husband dies.
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A start in life
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Gadfly in Russia
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Alan Sillitoe
The only essay Alan Sillitoe remembers writing at school was on the German advance into Russia during the Second World War. He also remembers his first map of the Stalingrad region, on which he followed the fighting. He still has that map and is still fascinated by Russia. In 1967, with a need to get away from his writing for a month or so, he set ...
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The German Numbers Woman
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A top-rate novel of drugs, love and treachery from an author at the height of his powers. Blind Howard, an ex-RAF veteran, possesses an acute sense of awareness, and can see almost better than the sighted. Morse code patterns his universe and keeps his mind tuned sharp to the big and sometimes bad world. Laura, his ever-doting wife, is loveliness ...
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The Lost Flying Boat
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Road to Volgograd.
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The storyteller
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A Man of His Time
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Alan Sillitoe
A wonderful new historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even to try to remain faithful to the woman he ...
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Alan Sillitoe: New and Collected Stories
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Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe is without doubt one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century, renowned for the themes of class and authority that run throughout his fiction. This impressive collection contains his greatest short stories, including his early classic, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This volume, which includes ...
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Travels in Nihilon
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The Lake of the Bees
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Theodor Storm, Jonathan Katz (Translator), Alan Sillitoe (Foreword by)
An old man looks back on his life and remembers Elizabeth - the only woman he ever loved. The two of them had shared their childhood, shared their summer holidays, hunts for strawberries in the forest, family picnics...Yet somehow all had been lost, and the joy, excitement and hope slowly replaced by the melancholy resignation and inertia that ...
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Participating in Development
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Alan Bicker (Editor), Johan Pottier (Editor), Paul Sillitoe (Editor)
Development has too often failed to deliver on its promises to poor nations. The policies imposed from above by international agencies and state bodies have frequently not met the needs and aspirations of ordinary people. Development agencies have been searching for sometime for alternative approaches. One of those being pioneered is 'indigenous ...
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The Flame of Life
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Mountains and caverns : selected essays
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The open door.
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A World of Difference: An Anthology of Short Stories from Five Continents
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V S Naipaul, Roxana Robinson, Alan Sillitoe
This is an international selection of 15 short stories by distinguished modern writers including Peter Carey, Zadie Smith and Bernard Malamud. Featuring the theme of 'difference', each story has something to say about cultural encounters, often arising from experiences of migration or uprooting. It is presented with biographic and photographic ...
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Life without armour
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Alan Sillitoe
Out of print for many years, and republished in this new edition, this is the autobiography of the formative years of one of our finest writers. Alan Sillitoe has been critically acclaimed for his many novels and short stories, including the bestsellers 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' and 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'. Sillitoe ...
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A Flight of Arrows
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Alan Sillitoe is renowned for his working class roots and his powerful, poignant yet unsentimental prose. He is acclaimed for his gifts of penetrating observation and evocative detail ('There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things.' Literary Review). In this collection of essays, ...
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Every day of the week : an Alan Sillitoe reader
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Life goes on
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Leading the Blind: A Century of Guide Book Travel 1815-1914
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