David Storey introduces Colin Pasmore. At night he runs races in his dreams, losing ‘to every dullard and idler in England’. His days are no better.
David Storey
David Storey was born in Wakefield, England. He studied at the Slade School of Art, before a writing career that yielded 15 plays and 11 novels.
His novels include This Sporting Life, which was made into an acclaimed film starring Richard Harris. Storey’s work won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize, for Saville.
Prizes tend to be rewarded to the reliable rather than the liabilities, and the liabilities are the people who matter in the end.
— David Storey, on winning the Booker Prize in 1976
Winner The Booker Prize 1976
- By
- David Storey
- Published by
- Jonathan Cape
Set in and around the Second World War, David Storey’s tale about a boy from a mining town who grows away from his roots won the Booker Prize in 1976.
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