The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
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My name is SecretSharer and I am an Anglophile. Sillitoe's book of stories about working-class people of Nottingham is just my cuppa. The title-story,told by a 17-year-old English boy incarcerated at the Borstal reform school, sent me to a dictionary of slang more than once, but the defiant tone is clear enough: "[Crime will] always be there...because I haven't finished making all my false moves yet, and I dare say I won't until I kick the bucket." The grinding cycle of poverty, violence, and crime binds the volume, along with the odd bit of manic excitement. It's brilliant.
Journal Entry 2 by secretsharer at Sac River Trail bench near Lk Rdg Dr in Redding, California USA on Monday, September 23, 2002
Released on Monday, September 23, 2002 at Sac River Trail bench near Lk Rdg Dr in Redding, California USA.
or maybe closer to the Elks Club this time ;-)
or maybe closer to the Elks Club this time ;-)
Book's gone!