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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Paperback • 1993 • English

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

By Alan Sillitoe

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About the book

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.

Classic fiction: general and literary

Book details

ISBN

9780586092415

Publisher

Flamingo

Published year

1993

Language

English

Original title

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Format

Paperback

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