A Stinging Delight

A Memoir

New Hardback Illustrated

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Before publishing his first novel This Sporting Life in 1960, Storey played rugby league for Leeds, studied art at the Slade and taught at schools in London’s East End. In this memoir he traces his progress from coal miner’s son to Booker-winning novelist and playwright who worked with Lindsay Anderson and Jocelyn Herbert. Haunted by his brother’s death in childhood, Storey also explores the depression that overshadowed his own life.

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