The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Book Runner
DOWNLOAD
Download The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Book Runner PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Book Runner book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2010-03-02
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-02 with Fiction categories.
Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching “On Saturday Afternoon” to the rollicking “The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.” Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher: Signet Book
Release Date : 1961-04
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by Signet Book this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961-04 with categories.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-04-19
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Fiction categories.
Nine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention center who is known only by his surname, Smith. The wardens have given the boy a light workload because he shows talent as a runner. But if he wins the national long-distance running competition as everyone is counting on him to do, Smith will only vindicate the very system and society that has locked him up. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” has long been considered a masterpiece on both the page and the silver screen. Adapted for film by Sillitoe himself in 1962, it became an instant classic of British New Wave cinema. In “Uncle Ernest,” a middle-aged furniture upholsterer traumatized in World War II, now leads a lonely life. His wife has left him, his brothers have moved away, and the townsfolk treat him as if he were a ghost. When the old man finally finds companionship with two young girls whom he enjoys buying pastries for at a café, the local authorities find his behavior morally suspect. “Mr. Raynor the School Teacher” delves into a different kind of isolation—that of a voyeuristic teacher who fantasizes constantly about the women who work in a draper’s shop across the street. When his students distract him from his lustful daydreams, Mr. Raynor becomes violent. The six stories that follow in this iconic collection continue to cement Alan Sillitoe’s reputation as one of Britain’s foremost storytellers, and a champion of the condemned, the oppressed, and the overlooked. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Book Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bill Rees
language : en
Publisher: Parthian Books
Release Date : 2011-10-17
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Book Runner written by Bill Rees and has been published by Parthian Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Imagine a life of adventure, set in the world of second-hand books: finding a valuable first edition gathering dust on a Parisian pub shelf, opening bookshops in Montpellier, Paris, Bangor, trading books with a holidaying Ian McEwan or Alan Sillitoe, and running for the door after finding yourself trespassing in a wealthy Moroccan's private library... The Loneliness of the Long Distance Book Runner recounts the trials, joys and tribulations of selling second hand books. Full of quirky anecdotes and literary odds and ends, these unique insider's tales of the trade are sure to spark the imagination of every book- lover who picks it up.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Cartoonist
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adrian Tomine
language : en
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Release Date : 2022-05-20
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Cartoonist written by Adrian Tomine and has been published by Drawn & Quarterly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-20 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile: despite the accolades and opportunities of a seemingly charmed career, it's the gaffes, humiliations, slights, and insults he's experienced (or caused) within the industry that loom largest in his memory. Tomine illustrates the amusing absurdities of how we choose to spend our time, all the while mining his conflicted relationship with comics and comics culture. But in between chaotic book tours, disastrous interviews, and cringe-inducing interactions with other artists, life happens: Tomine fumbles his way into marriage, parenthood, and an indisputably fulfilling existence. A richer emotional story emerges as his memories are delineated in excruciatingly hilarious detail. In a bold stylistic departure from his award-winning Killing and Dying, Tomine distills his art to the loose, lively essentials of cartooning, each pen stroke economically imbued with human depth. Designed as a sketchbook complete with place-holder ribbon and an elastic band, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist shows an acclaimed artist at the peak of his career.
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with categories.
Once A Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : John L. Parker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-04-07
Once A Runner written by John L. Parker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-07 with Fiction categories.
The undisputed classic of running novels and one of the most beloved sports books ever published, Once a Runner tells the story of an athlete’s dreams amid the turmoil of the 60s and the Vietnam war. Inspired by the author’s experience as a collegiate champion, the novel follows Quenton Cassidy, a competitive runner at fictional Southeastern University whose lifelong dream is to run a four-minute mile. He is less than a second away when the turmoil of the Vietnam War era intrudes into the staid recesses of his school’s athletic department. After he becomes involved in an athletes’ protest, Cassidy is suspended from his track team. Under the tutelage of his friend and mentor, Bruce Denton, a graduate student and former Olympic gold medalist, Cassidy gives up his scholarship, his girlfriend, and possibly his future to withdraw to a monastic retreat in the countryside and begin training for the race of his life against the greatest miler in history. A rare insider’s account of the incredibly intense lives of elite distance runners, Once a Runner is an inspiring, funny, and spot-on tale of one individual’s quest to become a champion.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner And Other Stories
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983-11-01
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner And Other Stories written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-11-01 with Alienation (Social psychology) categories.
One of a series of bestsellers which have been simplified to bring them within range of reluctant readers. This book, which is intended for the older secondary school reader, retains the style and flavour of the original and has the appearance of any other paperback.
Life Without Armour
DOWNLOAD
Author : Alan Sillitoe
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-07-12
Life Without Armour written by Alan Sillitoe and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England’s most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers. Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe’s childhood was marked by his father’s unpredictable and violent rage, as well as a near-certain condemnation to a life of labor on an assembly line. His family relocated frequently to avoid rent collectors, trading in one bug-infested hovel for another. Though intelligent and curious, the young author-to-be failed his grammar school entrance exams, and it seemed he was destined for work in a factory. The onset of Sillitoe’s teenage years, however, coincided with the advance of Hitler into Russia, and the war offered a chance for the boy to seek out a different fate. At the age of fourteen, Sillitoe used a fake ID to enroll in the Air Training Corps and went on to join the Ministry of Aircraft Production as an air traffic control assistant. He dreamed of becoming a pilot, but the war ended just after he qualified for training and he was instead shipped off to the Malayan jungle during the Communist insurgency as a radio operator for the Royal Air Force (RAF). After two years of living from one wireless watch to the next—taking in bearings and atmospherics though the radio, and exploring dangerous and primal landscapes by foot—Sillitoe finally returned to a prospectless postwar England and was diagnosed with tuberculosis. But this curse soon became a blessing: In the RAF hospital, Sillitoe began to read—everything from Kant to Descartes to Bernard Shaw—and he decided to become a writer. Already a veteran on an RAF disability pension at the age of twenty-one, Sillitoe began writing full-time, neither his physical challenges nor his numerous rejections from publishers deterring him in the least. He joined the Nottingham Writers’ Club, and his short stories began to achieve some minor local success. Soon after, a chance meeting with the American poet Ruth Fainlight led to full-blown love, and the two set off for France eager to live in a bucolic setting where they could dedicate all of their time to writing. Circumstance and favorable exchange rates then led the couple to Spain where Sillitoe continued his literary pursuits, met many artists and writers, had run-ins with gypsies, and even underwent police interrogations. Four unpublished novels later—and after nearly a decade of honing his craft—Sillitoe finally found staggering success in his working-class novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his collection of short stories The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. Written with Sillitoe’s signature simplicity, this in-depth autobiography not only gives insight into the formative years and mental maturation of one of Britain’s most influential writers, but also tells a great story of an underprivileged man who, with perseverance, made the most of his particular fate.
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rene Wijnstra
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-24
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner written by Rene Wijnstra and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The loneliness of the long distance runner is the main point of the autobiographical account of the marathon adventurer Rene Wijnstra. In 2010, this athlete had, along with five companions, the ultimate running challenge of their lives in "The City That Never Sleeps, The Big Apple," New York, the marathon of marathons! Rene has a trick but will he beat the 42.2 kilometers of asphalt and bridges? Would he manage to get it when he runs from Manhattan and finish at the Central Park? Flashbacks from previous years and the effects of music accompany the forty-two-year-old sportsman during the "Monster Tour" in the jungle of life and the streets of New York... Rene Wijnstra (Dokkum, 1968) spent fourteen years at the Central Flags and since 2001 worked at a paint wholesale service. He has lived his entire (sporting) life in the Frisian Dokkum and got together with his wife in 2004, and had a son. The talented writer, mostly writing sports articles and a single newspaper article (Summer Story "Down Down"), was the harbinger of truth for this book. In one year (2013), he completed the course on autobiography writing and wrote his first book: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner."