Passings :: Alan Sillitoe

The Loneliness Of The Long-Distance Runner carried me through many a mile in my life: "Novelist Alan Sillitoe has died at the age of 82, his family said. The Nottingham-born writer, whose novels marked him out as one of the Angry Young Men of British fiction who emerged in the 1950s, died at Charing Cross Hospital in London..."

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