About this title: 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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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. below avg. condition, heavy readers crease, edgewear. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. Spine is starting to loosen the cover is worn and heavily creased, writing on the first page, the pages are yellow and brittle. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Inventory No: 001481. read more
Edition: 5th printing.
Binding: PB.
Publisher: Great Pan Books G-505., London.
Date Published: 1963 (c1959).
Description: Very good paperback. Story collection. British movie tie-in edition with photo covers from the 1962 Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtney film. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. -1st Printing--144 pgs. Interior-Nice overall condition. The paperback cover has light signs of aging. -Publish Place: New York-Size: 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Books, New York
Date Published: 1961
ISBN-13:9780451097477ISBN:0451097475
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market paperback is in VG+/Fine condition with very light wear at spine corners, faint crease at spine edge. (71405) Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 3rd Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Pan Books Ltd., London
Date Published: 1962
Description: Fair. Pan G505. Movie tie-in edition with photo covers of Michael Redgrave and Tom Courtenay. The covers are soiled and creased with edge wear and some small tears. Soiled spine with edge wear and tears along the spine. Page browning. Pen marks on inside cover. read more
"I found this story interessent in as much as it puts the strengh but also the pain of the protagonist . His interior monologue composes the narrative and we see a boy torn between the need to please his captors and his determination not to play along with what he see as a corrupt system. I could understand the freedom which Colin found in running because it reminds me of my own running that I did this summer . I had a physical programm to do and I ran I felt effectively free indeed . I mean I was not grateful to run but I did it because it brought me a certain freedom and I believe that Colin speaks about the same kind of freedom . I find this story full of life , it makes us think and that's why I like it ."
"A strong collection of short stories from the darker side of Nottingham, England full of the depression and the humor of working class blokes and their birds ... do you remember Teddy Boys?"
"The title story is devistatingly wonderful. The rest of the stories in this collection are great too but I cannot think of what they are now. I should have written up this book when I read it but I forgot."
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