Saville

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Author
David Storey
Publisher
Random House
Genres
Fiction, Man Booker Prize winner
Released
01 January, 1976

Saville

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    Synopsis

    Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
    David Storey
    About the author

    David Storey

    David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. He is the author of fifteen plays and eleven novels, most recently The Thin-Ice Skater (2004). He has won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize for Saville. He now lives in London.

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