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This Sporting Life

by David Storey

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1784873977
ISBN-13 9781784873974
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint Vintage Classics
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Sep 27th, 2018
Print length 304 Pages
Weight 250 grams
Dimensions 19.20 x 14.60 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Ksh 1,800.00
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WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday TimesArthur 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. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond. Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man's life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction.

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. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss''s wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond.

Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man''s life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction.

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