Rugby League football in an industrial northern city circa 1960 is a life of grime, mud, sweat, intrigue and naked ambition. In This Sporting Life, David Storey recounts the fortunes of gladiator hero Arthur Machin from the day of his inclusion in the local team to the match when he begins to feel age creeping up on him. Through Arthur we are taken into his raw, often brutal world of players, backers, Saturday crowds bloody noses and broken teeth, landladies and communal baths.
David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. He is the author of fifteen plays and eleven novels, most recently The Thin-Ice Skater (2004). He has 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 now lives in London
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Vendeur : PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Good. Paperback in good condition. A real oddity - A 1976 copy of Storey's sporting life with a note laid in, to Bill Webb (whose name is penned to the half-title page) from Lindsay Anderson who was the director of the 1963 film of the book. Covers are scuffed and worn. Edges and corners are bumped and rubbed. Page block, endpapers and page edges are tanned. Page block head is lightly blemished, and first few pages are bumped at the upper leading edge. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW. Used. N° de réf. du vendeur 547960
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Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. Later printing. Mass market paperback. Cover illustrated by Allan Manham. Light wear, near fine. Inscribed by the author. A behind-the-scenes look at Professional Rugby Football, winner of the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and basis for the 1963 film starring Richard Harris. N° de réf. du vendeur 544777
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Vendeur : ChouetteCoop, Kervignac, France
Etat : Used: Acceptable. Occasion - Etat Correct - Jauni - This sporting life (1968) - Grand Format. N° de réf. du vendeur 3470071
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