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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. [1] Awards. Saville won the 1976 Booker Prize for fiction. [2] References. ^ Sutherland, John (2014).
David Storey. 3.51. 1,008 ratings82 reviews. WINNER OF THE 1976 BOOKER PRIZE. 'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives...this novel will delight and move you' Guardian.
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.
30 de sept. de 2013 · David Storey's Booker Prize winner Saville (1976) - called 'the best of all the Bookers' by a leading British critic - returns to print in the United States for the first time in decades in this new edition, which includes a new foreword by the author and the original dust jacket art by Tom Adams.
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...
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 ...
This is the story of Colin Saville, a miner's son, and his growth from the 1930s on, his rise in the world by way of grammar school and college.
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