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Saville is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer David Storey. Plot. The novel centres on Colin, a young boy growing up in the Yorkshire mining village of Saxton during the Second World War and the postwar years. Awards. Saville won the 1976 Booker Prize for fiction. References
David Storey’s Saville is the next Booker prize-winning novel on my list, a glacially-paced, realist Bildungsroman starring son of a coal miner Colin Saville. A labour of love (taking, apparently, ten years to write), it is impressive in the narrowest, most pedantic of ways.
Saville is a rich and detailed chronicle, an ambitious undertaking that tracks the progress of Colin Saville, the eldest son of a coal miner, from the 1930’s through the 1950’s and over the...
This novel quite simply tells the story of Colin Saville, growing up in a Yorkshire mining town called Saxton. Virtually the whole story is told in a direct, Yorkshire manner, with little affection though, clearly, lots of concern for the fate of the impoverished mining community.
If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives, a controlled drama of ordinary and extraordinary people, this novel...
Saville is set in 1940s England in the mining town of Saxton. The title refers to the novel’s young protagonist, Colin Saville, who is growing up with his parents, Harry and Ellen, and later his younger brothers, Steven and Richard. Harry is a coal miner, forced to ride his bike to the colliery every morning, since he has no position in the ...
18 de nov. de 2008 · So, it's all the more impressive that this novel remains captivating for most of its 500+ pages. Storey may take himself too seriously, but that's not enough reason to disregard his talent.
