Summary
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1976, Saville is the story of one young man trying to make his way in the world.
“If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives…this novel will delight and move you” - Guardian
In spite of his brilliance, Colin Saville doesn’t fit in easily at the grammar school in town - 1940s middle-class society is so different from the mining village of his childhood. He makes tentat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784873967 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784873969 |
| Author: | David Storey |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 39mm |
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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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