Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Evelyn Waugh never wrote about the lower classes -- didn't know them, didn't understand them, wasn't interested. Alan Sillitoe is a Waugh for the rest of England, as this collection of stories shows. His characters have vitality and cunning, and when they demonstrate insight it is theirs alone, not some authorial welfare project.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment