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The Likes of Us
Stan Barstow
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Description for The Likes of Us
Paperback. A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covering the last five decades of British life. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 44. Weight in Grams: 956.
A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance, a widower is brought to grief by a woman outside his real understanding, a factory worker finding his way through the physical world of his marriage - real and involving, Barstow's stories are urgent slices of life, men and women struggling and succeeding to come to terms with The Likes ... Read more
A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance, a widower is brought to grief by a woman outside his real understanding, a factory worker finding his way through the physical world of his marriage - real and involving, Barstow's stories are urgent slices of life, men and women struggling and succeeding to come to terms with The Likes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
696
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
673g
Number of Pages
696
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908069672
SKU
V9781908069672
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Ref
99-2
About Stan Barstow
Along with Alan Sillitoe and John Braine, Stan Barstow was considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism. He produced eleven novels and three books of short stories, as well as TV scripts. A Kind of Loving became a film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates. He also wrote Joby, a television play ... Read more
Reviews for The Likes of Us
'Stan Barstow's stories... have what is so rare in a successful writer - a kind of primary vision, a feeling for characters, the mileux he originally knew and might have grown away from. He speaks for urban provincial life with piercing vividness; for a particular outlook and mortality that few other writers touch...' Financial Times