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  • The Collected Novels Volume One

    This Sporting Life and Flight into Camden

    by David Storey ...
    Two award-winning novels—including This Sporting Life—from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. "The leading novelist ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume Three

    Thin-Ice Skater, As It Happened, and Present Times

    by David Storey ...
    Three thought-provoking novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was made into a film ... Read more

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  • Present Times

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    From "the leading novelist of his generation" (the Daily Telegraph)—a story about marriage, family, and 1 man's 2nd chanceAt age 47, former playwright Frank Attercliffe lives with 2 of his 5 children in a 4-bedroom apartment on Walton Lane on the outskirts of an English suburb. For the past 3 years, his wife, Sheila, has been living with Maurice, a car dealer who owns a Rolls-Royce, a Bentley, ... Read more

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  • The Collected Novels Volume Two

    A Serious Man, A Temporary Life, and A Prodigal Child

    by David Storey ...
    Three powerful novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" ( The New Yorker).The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was made into a film with ... Read more

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  • A Temporary Life

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    An art teacher searches for meaning in a strange town as his wife spirals into madness in this stunning novel from Man Booker Prize–winning author David StoreyColin Freestone had not planned to live in northern England. The people here are so passionate and raw that he does not expect to ever understand them or feel at ease. But when his wife, Yvonne, fell sick, she would only accept psychiatric ... Read more

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  • Edward

    by David Storey ...
    An illustrated classic from the author of Saville and Flight into CamdenWritten before David Storey's 1976 Man Booker Prize–winning novel Saville, Edward tells the tale of a kindly and aging bishop who lives his life by just and holy standards—until one day he is surprised by the appearance of an old key, sitting in a curious box atop his study desk. Illustrated by the fine hand of Donald Parker, ... Read more

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  • A Prodigal Child

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A novel about family and class restrictions by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting Life and SavilleWith 2 rooms downstairs and 3 upstairs, the house at Spinney Moor Road is a real step-up for the Morley family. Arthur Morley is a farmer who frequently comes home drunk, and who often competes with his prudish, penny-pinching wife, Sarah, for the love of their boys, Alan and Bryan. ... Read more

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  • Thin-Ice Skater

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A seventeen-year-old is sent to the country to live with his much-older half-brother and falls into an unexpected affair in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David StoreyThe narrator of Storey's eleventh novel is an angst-ridden seventeen-year-old who shares intimate details of his life in the form of memos written to himself. Born in Beverly Hills, California, Richard "Rick" Audlin ... Read more

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  • A Serious Man

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A successful playwright, painter, and novelist confronts his mortality and the past during a major life crisis in this novel by Man Booker Prize–winning author David StoreyRichard Fenchurch has had a long and successful career as a playwright, painter, and novelist. But at age 65, he is coming apart at the seams. Fearing he will do something drastic if he remains alone, Fenchurch's married ... Read more

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  • Flight into Camden

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A miner's daughter leaves home to make a new life in London with a married teacher in this beautiful love story that won the 1961 John Llewellyn Rhys PrizeMost of Margaret's family is graveside when they lay her grandfather to rest. Although everyone is in the same place, they are not really together. Margaret descends from Yorkshire coal miners, stoic people who have mastered the art of burying ... Read more

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  • This Sporting Life

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey's seminal first novelOn Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth. A teammate on the rugby pitch is too slow with a handoff, and instead of catching the ball, Art catches an opponent's foot right in the mouth. When he regains ... Read more

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  • As It Happened

    A Novel

    by David Storey ...
    A wry and deeply affecting novel about a man's ruminations on art and death by the Man Booker Prize–winning author of This Sporting LifeMatthew Maddox is an art historian and professor emeritus at the Drayburgh School of Fine Art. Nearing 70, his 3 sons are grown and his ex-wife, Charlotte, has remarried. After a failed suicide attempt in front of a moving train, Maddox attends art therapy classes ... Read more

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