From the author of Saturday Night & Sunday Morning' comes these stories of hardship & hope in post-war Britain The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith a defiant young rebel inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting frost-bitten earth he wonders why for whom & for what he is running A groundbreaking work The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s But Sillitoe's depiction of petty crime & deep-seated anger in industrial & desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago