Tag: book-reviews
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Book review: The loneliness of the long distance runner by Alan Sillitoe
History’s simply a chronicle of people entering and exiting variously curated rooms wearing different hats. Queue, cyclically, everything going boom; this book was written after one such schismatic ruction, therefore one is forgiven the dubbing of literature written in, particularly that, war’s wake “post-apocalyptic”. A snarling bulldog charge of a book, this. Gritty short stories…