The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: Alan Sillitoe

Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors.
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.