The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. 1975. Cloth with dustjacket. Ex-library.

This is Sillitoe's best-known work, a collection of stories presumably drawn in large part from his working class life in Great Britain. The book's emphasis on gritty realism will not be everyone's cup of tea but his prose is clean, powerful and nearly free of sentimentality. THIS IS THE BASIS FOR THE HIT MOVIE STARRING TOM COURTENAY!!