Author Biography
David Storey was born in July 1933 in Wakefield, Yorkshire. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. He is a Fellow of University College, London. His plays include The Restoration of Arnold Middleton (1967), The Contractor (1969), Home (1970) and The Changing Room (1972), all of which won the New York Critics Best Play of the Year Award. His first novel, This Sporting Life, was published in 1960. It won the Macmillan Fiction Award and was adapted as a film starring Richard Harris. His novels include Flight into Camden (1960), Radcliffe (1963), and Pasmore (1972) which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1972. His seventh novel, Saville (1976), won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1976. David Storey lives in London.
Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
"A marvellous evocation of place and character... this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph "This is the story of Colin Savil...
评分"A marvellous evocation of place and character... this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph "This is the story of Colin Savil...
评分"A marvellous evocation of place and character... this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph "This is the story of Colin Savil...
评分"A marvellous evocation of place and character... this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph "This is the story of Colin Savil...
评分"A marvellous evocation of place and character... this is a book made more than usually remarkable by its intensity of feeling" Daily Telegraph "This is the story of Colin Savil...
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