This Sporting Life (Vintage Classics)

WINNER OF THE MACMILLAN PRIZE FOR FICTION

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a struggling coal miner's son, now he can buy what he likes - a car, a fur coat for his widowed landlady, Mrs Hammond, who is becoming something more. But fame makes a mess of things. Machin is troubled by advances from the boss's wife, he challenges the sensibilities of the comfortable classes and struggles to understand why his success fails to impress Mrs Hammond.

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.

CASTIGATORUL PREMIULUI MACMILLAN PENTRU FICTIE „Extraordinar de matur - din punct de vedere tehnic si emotional” Sunday Times Viata lui Arthur Machin se schimba atunci cand este ales pentru echipa ligii de rugby din orasul sau local. Candva era un fiu al unui minier de carbune, acum poate cumpara ceea ce ii place - o masina, o haina de blana pentru gospodina sa vaduva, doamna Hammond, care devine ceva mai mult.