Description
Vic Brown is a young man on the way up, he's got a job, money, ambitions and a new girlfriend, Ingrid Rothwell. His mate has even got a car - a Triumph TR3. He's never had it so good. But Ingrid wants to get married, it's the only respectable thing to do. She's a step above Vic and he knows it. If they marry they could move in with Ingrid's mother. He could move out from the house he grew up in. A real married couple. The world has begun to close in on Vic. A Kind of Loving is a seminal novel in British working-class fiction. First published in 1960 it has been adapted for stage, television, radio, and was made into an iconic film. A Kind of Loving made Stan Barstow one of the key voices of the 1960s cultural renaissance in British life. With a new afterword by David Collard.
'...warmth, liveliness, honesty, compassion...' Sunday Times "Unsentimental and unpatronising" The Guardian "Of the red-blooded working-class writers with northern roots, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Keith Waterhouse ... Stan Barslow was arguably the best ... His aim quietly ambitious, as he saw it 'seeking out the universal in the particular'." Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Fiction writer and dramatist, Barstow was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Ossett Grammar School, then began writing in the 1950s. Along with Alan Sillitoe, John Braine and Keth Waterhouse he is considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism. His first great success was the novel A Kind of Loving, which became a film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates. Since then he has produced eleven novels and three books of short stories, many set in the fictional mining town of Cressley, as well as TV scripts and material for the radio and theatre. Other works include the novel Ask Me Tomorrow (1962), and Joby, which was turned into a television play starring Patrick Stewart. For the last ten years of his life he made his home in South Wales with the distinguished radio dramatist Diana Griffiths. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and an Honorary Master of Arts of the Open University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781914595462
Author Stan Barstow
Format Paperback
Page Count 372
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books
'...warmth, liveliness, honesty, compassion...' Sunday Times "Unsentimental and unpatronising" The Guardian "Of the red-blooded working-class writers with northern roots, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Keith Waterhouse ... Stan Barslow was arguably the best ... His aim quietly ambitious, as he saw it 'seeking out the universal in the particular'." Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Fiction writer and dramatist, Barstow was born in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Ossett Grammar School, then began writing in the 1950s. Along with Alan Sillitoe, John Braine and Keth Waterhouse he is considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism. His first great success was the novel A Kind of Loving, which became a film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates. Since then he has produced eleven novels and three books of short stories, many set in the fictional mining town of Cressley, as well as TV scripts and material for the radio and theatre. Other works include the novel Ask Me Tomorrow (1962), and Joby, which was turned into a television play starring Patrick Stewart. For the last ten years of his life he made his home in South Wales with the distinguished radio dramatist Diana Griffiths. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the Welsh Academy and an Honorary Master of Arts of the Open University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781914595462
Author Stan Barstow
Format Paperback
Page Count 372
Imprint Parthian Books
Publisher Parthian Books
