The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

From the author of -Saturday Night and Sunday Morning- come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man''s land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running.A groundbreaking work, -The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner- captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe-s depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.