The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe · 1959
Sport · ranked #53 in category
A short story collection featuring, in the title story, one of Sillitoe’s very best. The story concerns a teenaged boy from a poor working class background who is sent to a borstal for robbery and tak
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