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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.
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.
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...
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...
30 de sept. de 2013 · Saville Kindle Edition. by David Storey (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 176. See all formats and editions. '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.
18 de nov. de 2008 · And yet here is the 1976 Booker winner set among a South Yorkshire mining family in the late 1930s, complete with small kitchen, moaning mother and an oldest son...
