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Saville

David Storey author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:27th Sep '18

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Winner of the Booker Prize in 1976, Saville is the story of one young man trying to make his way in the world

WINNER OF THE 1976 BOOKER PRIZE

'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives...this novel will delight and move you' Guardian

In spite of his brilliance, Colin Saville doesn't fit in easily at the grammar school in town - 1940s middle-class society is so different from the mining village of his childhood. He makes tentative friendships and meets girls over long, empty summers but feels like an outsider with them and, increasingly, at home.

Following the pattern of David Storey’s own early years, Saville is a remarkably honest portrait of the tensions between parents and children, the difficulties of making one’s own way in life, and the social divisions that persist still.

  • Winner of Man Booker Prize for Fiction 1976 (UK)

ISBN: 9781784873967

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 35mm

Weight: 490g

688 pages