Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 'Storey's fiction ought to . . . secure his reputation as one of the most original writers of his generation.' - The Guardian 'The leading novelist of his generation.' - Daily Telegraph 'Swift, clean and painful . . . as good as anything he has done.' - The Times 'Mr Storey is an absorbing writer, and he captures in a completely believable way the terrible bleakness of Pasmore's family's coal-mining town and the bewilderment and anguish of a family falling apart.' - The New ...
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 'Storey's fiction ought to . . . secure his reputation as one of the most original writers of his generation.' - The Guardian 'The leading novelist of his generation.' - Daily Telegraph 'Swift, clean and painful . . . as good as anything he has done.' - The Times 'Mr Storey is an absorbing writer, and he captures in a completely believable way the terrible bleakness of Pasmore's family's coal-mining town and the bewilderment and anguish of a family falling apart.' - The New Yorker 'Remarkable . . . an admirable piece of writing.' - Boston Globe To all external appearances, Colin Pasmore has a happy life: not yet thirty, with a wife, three children, a nice home, and a good job as a university lecturer, everything seems to be going right. But after he is beset by a recurring nightmare, he begins to experience the terrifying sensation that his whole life is unravelling. He is suddenly unable to bear the presence of friends and family, incapable of touching or communicating with his wife, dissatisfied and even embarrassed by his job. He finds himself looking on in helpless horror, struggling to understand why his entire world is disintegrating around him. . . . Pasmore (1972), David Storey's fourth novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This new edition is the first in more than 25 years and features the original jacket art by the author. Storey's Radcliffe and Saville (winner of the Booker Prize) are also available from Valancourt Books.
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Good. Publisher: Longman. Bumps/discolouration to cover edges. Tanning/fading/marks/scratches/some creasing to price-clipped jacket & tears to edges. Tanning/marks to textblock edges. Some dark marks on pages. Text good. 201 p.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book 12 mo., hardcover, fine in near fine beige and tan pictorial dj. First Edition. Clean, unmarked. 201pp. David Storey's most important novel: it expresses movingly, with great cogency and simplicity, the downfall and subsequent regeneration of a man who, in all senses of the word, has given himself up for lost.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Small octavo. 201pp. Fine in a very good dust jacket with a hint of spine sunning, creases and a couple tears to the topedge. Inscribed on the title page: "To Anne with best wishes-and to complete the family connection. David Storey 21.5.82." Uncommon signed.
