New and Collected Stories

by Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe is without doubt one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century, renowned for the themes of class and authority that run throughout his fiction. This impressive collection contains his greatest short stories, including his early classic, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This volume, which includes previsouly unpublished stories, demonstrates the potency and timelessness of Sillitoe's work. He has been widely critically

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

615 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it).
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Reviews

[RYD · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nobody did angry young man better than Alan Sillitoe, and I'd take "Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner" over J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" any day. This collection of Sillitoe's stories is really good and shows his development as a writer. I found a few too many middle-aged pieces about frustrated working-class marriages, but that would be my only quibble.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

His best work was on par with William Trevor. I wish more recognised it, and not just for that famous first collection.

[Carol Anne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love these stories - such sensitivity, such deep human understanding.

[Danika Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

(I actually just read 'Pit Strike', but there was no actually book to add on here for it)