The Collected Novels Volume One: This Sporting Life and Flight into Camden
Jul 2018 · Open Road Media
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Two award-winning novels—including This Sporting Life—from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. "The leading novelist of his generation," Storey was also a playwright and screenwriter, going on to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel, Saville ( The Daily Telegraph). The collected fiction gathered here includes This Sporting Life as well as his second novel, focusing on a female protagonist, also from a Yorkshire coal mining town.
This Sporting Life: In a bleak Yorkshire mining town, an aggressive rugby league footballer finds fame, fortune, and countless women but cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside. Storey also wrote the screenplay based on his "impressive first novel" for the award-winning film starring Richard Harris ( The New York Times).
"Classic . . . a revelation . . . Skeptical, belligerent, and acidly ironical." —Edmund White, The Paris Review
Flight Into Camden: Margaret, a miner's daughter, leaves her oppressive family in Yorkshire, hoping to make a new life in London with a married teacher in this "love story written with seriousness and intensity" ( The Observer). Storey's second novel, told in Margaret's voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.
"A tour de force of domestic oppression . . . Rises on occasions to a pitch of precise beauty which I can only . . . describe as poetry." — The Guardian
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. "The leading novelist of his generation," Storey was also a playwright and screenwriter, going on to win the Man Booker Prize for his novel, Saville ( The Daily Telegraph). The collected fiction gathered here includes This Sporting Life as well as his second novel, focusing on a female protagonist, also from a Yorkshire coal mining town.
This Sporting Life: In a bleak Yorkshire mining town, an aggressive rugby league footballer finds fame, fortune, and countless women but cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside. Storey also wrote the screenplay based on his "impressive first novel" for the award-winning film starring Richard Harris ( The New York Times).
"Classic . . . a revelation . . . Skeptical, belligerent, and acidly ironical." —Edmund White, The Paris Review
Flight Into Camden: Margaret, a miner's daughter, leaves her oppressive family in Yorkshire, hoping to make a new life in London with a married teacher in this "love story written with seriousness and intensity" ( The Observer). Storey's second novel, told in Margaret's voice, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award.
"A tour de force of domestic oppression . . . Rises on occasions to a pitch of precise beauty which I can only . . . describe as poetry." — The Guardian
Two award-winning novels—including This Sporting Life—from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).
The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background fo...
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David Storey was born in 1933 in Yorkshire, England, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. His novels won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. He also wrote fifteen plays and was a fellow of University College London. Storey passed away in 2017 at the age of eighty-three.
David Storey was born in 1933 in Yorkshire, England, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. His novels won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. He also wrote fifteen plays and was a fello...
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