The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)

UK

Short Story

Author: Alan Sillitoe

An angry young man from Nottingham, fresh out of borstal, recounts how he came to be there, how he (quite accidentally) became the darling of the governor through his talent for long distance running, and how he rejected the establishment’s attentions with a show of great defiance, in Sillitoe’s absorbing and thoroughly authentic feeling short story, a sort of working class Catcher in the Rye (1951). Iain.Stott