{"title":"Alan Sillitoe","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"a-tree-on-fire","title":"A Tree on Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eJewish dilettante Myra Bassingfield returns to England from Gibraltar with her four-week-old son. Frank Dawley, the childs father and the anarchist antihero of \u003cem\u003eThe Death of William Posters\u003c\/em\u003e, has disappeared into the African desert, where he is fighting with the FLN (\u003cem\u003eFront de Libration Nationale\u003c\/em\u003e) for Algerian independence against French troops. \u003cbr\u003e Greeting Myra quayside as she disembarks from the ship is Franks friend, Albert Handley, an idealistic painter living in a chaotic house in Linconshire with seven kids, a bulldog, six cats, and two \u003cem\u003eau pair\u003c\/em\u003e girls. Alberts brother, John, is determined to break from the family and he sets off for Algeria to track Frank downbut not before burning the Handley house to the ground. The Handley brood must then move in with Myra in Buckinghamshire, and by the time Frank finally shows up, they have formed a domestic cell of protest that may just plant the seeds of a new English revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47263850463526,"sku":"a-tree-on-fire","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/d0441d4a-d233-4093-a1bf-78ba6013aab6.jpg?v=1701087324"},{"product_id":"the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-runner","title":"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003eNine classic short stories portraying the isolation, criminality, morality, and rebellion of the working class from award-winning, bestselling author Alan Sillitoe The titular story follows the internal decisions and external oppressions of a seventeen-year-old inmate in a juvenile detention center who is known only by his surname, Smith. The wardens have given the boy a light workload because he shows talent as a runner. But if he wins the national long-distance running competition as everyone is counting on him to do, Smith will only vindicate the very system and society that has locked him up. “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” has long been considered a masterpiece on both the page and the silver screen. Adapted for film by Sillitoe himself in 1962, it became an instant classic of British New Wave cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn “Uncle Ernest,” a middle-aged furniture upholsterer traumatized in World War II, now leads a lonely life. His wife has left him, his brothers have moved away, and the townsfolk treat him as if he were a ghost. When the old man finally finds companionship with two young girls whom he enjoys buying pastries for at a café, the local authorities find his behavior morally suspect. “Mr. Raynor the School Teacher” delves into a different kind of isolation—that of a voyeuristic teacher who fantasizes constantly about the women who work in a draper’s shop across the street. When his students distract him from his lustful daydreams, Mr. Raynor becomes violent. The six stories that follow in this iconic collection continue to cement Alan Sillitoe’s reputation as one of Britain’s foremost storytellers, and a champion of the condemned, the oppressed, and the overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47573437481254,"sku":"LONGDISTANCERUNNER","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/541ab6aa-b461-4e38-bcaa-146b4a490675.jpg?v=1706442973"},{"product_id":"the-loneliness-of-the-long-distance-runner-1","title":"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe’s depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47869520314662,"sku":"alansillitoe","price":250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/9806a9aa-95b2-4569-82dd-28c6a8ecfada.jpg?v=1710591568"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/alan-sillitoe.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}