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This Sporting Life by David Storey

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This Sporting Life
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David Storey

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Thomas Barrett's review

Jun 21, 2017

really liked it

bookshelves: to-read, free-reading

Read after coming across an obituary of David Storey. It's a brutish yet elegant read and the final chapter features probably the greatest descriptions of sporting action that is humanly possible to write. The narrative was (slightly) weak but the writing was brilliant and captures the plodding drudgery of Wakefield and towns like it perfectly.

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May 18, 2017 – Shelved

May 18, 2017 – Shelved as:to-read

June 21, 2017 – Shelved as:free-reading

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