This Sporting Life - Vintage Classics

WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday TimesArthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond.Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man's life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction.

ISBN:	9781784873974
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage Classics
Published date:	27 Sep 2018
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	285
Weight:	250g
Height:	192mm
Width:	146mm
Spine width:	19mm

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