A stinging delight : a memoir /

A stinging delight : a memoir /

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Author / Creator:	Storey, David, 1933-2017, author.
Imprint:	London : Faber & Faber, 2021. ©2021
Description:	xi, 407 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Storey, David, -- 1933-2017. Storey, David, -- 1933-2017. Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography. Dramatists, English. Novelists, English. Biographies. Biographies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12600569

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ISBN:	9780571360314 0571360319 9780571360338 (ePub ebook)
Summary:	The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London. He describes shocking scenes in the seventeen deprived East End schools in which he taught. He documents the childhood death of his eldest brother, addressing much of the memoir to him and exploring how this relates to his own sometimes paralysing depression, which haunted most of his life. And yet, a prolific and celebrated writer, he recalls heady spells in New York, close relationships in the theatre with Joycelyn Herbert, Ralph Richardson and Lindsay Anderson, early success with This Sporting Life, and winning the Booker Prize for his novel Saville.
Other form:	ebook version : 9780571360338

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