The Life Of A Long Distance Writer By Richard Bradford
Posted at 11:45AM Tuesday 30 Dec 2008
The Life of a Long-Distance Writer
ISBN: 9780720613179
It's a good subject. Sillitoe, 80 this year, is one of the best living English novelists, but also one who has stood at an oblique angle to the literary world, and arguably never achieved his due. Everyone who reads fiction probably knows him as the author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, both published almost half a century ago, rarely, if ever, out of print, admired in other countries, notably France, and both made into successful films, though neither film did full justice to the work from which it was drawn. It would be absurd to say that these two early successes hang like a dead weight round their author's neck – for one thing, he must have earned a regular annual income from them, and few authors are lucky enough to be able to get that from their first works.
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