
The Likes of Us
Stories of Five Decades
Stan Barstow(Author)
Parthian Books (Publisher)
Published on 31. January 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
696 pages
978-1-908069-67-2 (ISBN)
Description
A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow's stories covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner's wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance, a widower is brought to grief by a woman outside his real understanding, a factory worker finding his way through the physical world of his marriage - real and involving, Barstow's stories are urgent slices of life, men and women struggling and succeeding to come to terms with The Likes of Us.
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'Stan Barstow's stories... have what is so rare in a successful writer - a kind of primary vision, a feeling for characters, the mileux he originally knew and might have grown away from. He speaks for urban provincial life with piercing vividness; for a particular outlook and mortality that few other writers touch...' Financial TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cardigan
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 48 mm
Weight
670 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908069-67-2 (9781908069672)
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02/2013
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Person
Along with Alan Sillitoe and John Braine, Stan Barstow was considered one of the pioneers of the 1960s school of northern literary realism. He produced eleven novels and three books of short stories, as well as TV scripts. A Kind of Loving became a film directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates. He also wrote Joby, a television play starring Patrick Stewart and the television drama Calon Gaeth, which he co-wrote with Diana Griffiths, won a Welsh BAFTA for best drama. Stan was a Fellow of Academi. He passed away in 2011.