Summary
This Sporting Life is Storey’s award-winning novel that inspired a film starring Richard Harris
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. B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784873974 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784873977 |
| Author: | David Storey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
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 for Saville. He died in 2017.
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