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Alan Sillitoe recalls his childhood in Nottingham when he was in a gang led by Frankie Buller, a man in his early twenties with a mental age much lower. They made frequent raids into a nearby housing estate to battle a rival gang.
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same title. [1] The work focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime.
Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 ... Sillitoe's story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, ... JR Books, 2007; Plays. Three Plays, London: ...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. The screenplay was written by Alan Sillitoe , based on his 1959 short story of the same title , and concerns a rebellious youth who has been ...
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a 1959 short story by Alan Sillitoe. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner may also refer to: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, a 1962 film adaptation of the story; The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (short story collection), a 1959 collection by Sillitoe including the story
Bob Schul, the only American distance runner to win gold in the 5,000 meters at the Olympics, has died. Schul predicted gold leading into the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and followed through with his promise.
But it fell to former UCLA coach Bob Larsen and Joe Vigil, who coached distance runners for the U.S. Olympic team, to push that science forward when they took their athletes to the 7,900-foot ...
Producer Tony Richardson later directed another such film, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), which was also adapted from an Alan Sillitoe book of the same name. The film received an X rating from the BBFC upon its theatrical release. It was re-rated PG before a 1990 home video release. [9]