David Storey
Storey was a playwright and novelist whose This Sporting Life combined a visceral account of rugby league with psychological depth. His depiction of working-class male experience in the north of England has tremendous force.
Works
- This Sporting LifeNovel about a former rugby player struggling with injury and working-class despair
- Flight into CamdenNovel exploring an affair between a woman and a middle-aged man
- RadcliffeNovel about the relationship between two working-class men in post-war England
- SavilleNovel set in a mining village following the life of a boy from childhood to adulthood
- A Prodigal Child