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   This Sporting Life is a 1960 novel by the English writer David Storey. It is set in Northern England and follows a man who tries to make it as a professional rugby league footballer. It was the debut novel of Storey, himself a former player for Leeds .

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   A century later we come to David Storey’s This Sporting Life, a novel about a factory worker who gets signed by a Rugby League team in a 1950s northern town. This Sporting Life might be set a hundred years after the Industrial Revolution kickstarted sport, but it is clear that sport and industry still go together.

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   A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel On...

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   Aug 11, 2015 · A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel. On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth.

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   Aug 11, 2015 · A rugby player finds fame and fortune in a bleak mining town, but he cannot outrun the emptiness he feels inside in Man Booker Prize–winning author David Storey’s seminal first novel. On Christmas Eve, Arthur breaks his two front teeth.

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   • Publish Year: 1960

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   This Sporting Life: A Novel - Ebook written by David Storey. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take...

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   Who wrote This Sporting Life?

   • This Sporting Life is a 1960 novel by the English writer David Storey. It is set in Northern England and follows a man who tries to make it as a professional rugby league footballer. It was the debut novel of Storey, himself a former player for Leeds . The book was the basis for Lindsay Anderson 's 1963 film This Sporting Life.

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   Is This Sporting Life based on a true story?

   • A rugby player finds the violence in his professional life tainting his personal relationships. This Sporting Life (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You Want A Thumping, Love? Based on the novel This Sporting Life by David Storey (London, 1960). A rugby player finds the violence in his professional life tainting his personal relationships.

   This Sporting Life (1963) - Turner Classic Movies

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   Who starred in This Sporting Life?

   • Lobby card for This Sporting Life (1963), starring Richard Harris (left). Storey’s first published novel, This Sporting Life (1960), is his best-known. It is the story of a professional rugby player and his affair with his widowed landlady. Storey wrote the script for a film based on the novel and directed by Lindsay Anderson in 1963.

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   What is my Sporting Life about?

   • But while they went on to find fame on the field, he spent the next few decades watching, writing and talking about sport. My Sporting Life is Sir Michael's love letter to sport, to the heroes and legends of his Yorkshire youth, to the characters of the international games he watched and wrote about, and to the very idea of sport itself.

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9. www.penguin.co.uk › books › 354948This Sporting Life - Penguin Books UK

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   Gritty, full of ambition and anger, This Sporting Life is an unflinching and surgical dissection of one man's life and a rare foray onto the sports field in British fiction.