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This Sporting Life
David Storey
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Description for This Sporting Life
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WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his ... Read more
WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784873974
SKU
9781784873974
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About David Storey
David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. He wrote fifteen plays and eleven novels, including This Sporting Life which was made into a film starring Richard Harris. His work won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize ... Read more
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