The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Runners (Sports)
Gay teenagers
Short stories, english
Anthology
Juvenile delinquents
English Short stories
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Working class
Fiction, short stories (single author)
Short stories
Readers
England, fiction
Manners and customs
English language
Social life and customs
Children's fiction
Fiction
A short story collection featuring, in the title story, one of Sillitoe’s very best. The story concerns a teenaged boy from a poor working class background who is sent to a borstal for robbery and takes up long-distance running as a way of temporarily escaping from both his present situation and his…
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