Ebook {Epub PDF} The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner, The Hardcover – Import, January 1, by. Alan Sillitoe (Author) › Visit Amazon's Alan Sillitoe Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author/5(). Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Share to Twitter. Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner. Topics sillitoe Collection opensource Language English. good .  · Analysis of Alan Sillitoe’s Stories. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on J • (0) “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,” the title story of Alan Sillitoe’s (4 March – 25 April ) first collection of short fiction, quickly became one of .

"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is the title story in a collec tion published by Alan Sillitoe in Like Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (), John Wain's Hurry on Down (), and John Braine's Room at the Top (), the stories by Sillitoe belong to an era in British post-war litera. The loneliness of the long distance runner Richardson, Tony, ; Sillitoe, Alan, Tom Courtenay plays the sullen, defiant Colin, who turns his back on his factory job and turns to petty thieving; sent to Borstal when he is caught, he discovers a latent talent for cross-country running. Complete summary of Alan Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe. 5, ratings, average rating, reviews. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner Quotes Showing of “I'm a human being and I've got thoughts and secrets and bloody life inside me that he doesn't know is there, and he'll never know what's there because he's stupid. "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is an outstanding short story collection. The stories here take place in working class England in the immediate pre and post WWII era. The characters are all in unhappy and near inescapable circumstances. "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," by Alan Sillitoe, was first published in It is a first-person monologue spoken by a year-old inmate of an English Borstal, or reform school. Smith, the only name this character receives, has received a two-year prison sentence for breaking into a local bakery, but he has discovered a way to improve the conditions of his stay in jail.