The loneliness of the long-distance runner
By: by Alan Sillitoe.
Series: Plume contemporary fiction
Publisher: Plume
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., U.S.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Working class -- Fiction.; Nottingham (England) -- Fiction.
Description: 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.