{"product_id":"a-kind-of-loving-2","title":"A Kind of Loving (The Vic Brown Trilogy #1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book will be released in March 2027.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-orders are charged at time of order and the book will be posted to you as soon as it becomes available.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUK postage is 99 pence per order.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘unsentimental and unpatronising’ – \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Of the red-blooded working-class writers with northern roots – John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey, Keith Waterhouse... Stan Barstow was arguably the best... His aim quietly ambitious, as he saw it “seeking out the universal in the particular”.’ – \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘...warmth, liveliness, honesty, compassion...’ – \u003cem\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVic Brown is a twenty-year-old young man on the way up. With a job, money, mates to meet down the pub, he’s never had it so good. Until his infatuation with Ingrid Rothwell, a secretary at the firm where he works, leads him down a different path, as he learns the difference between love and desire, things begin to fall apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"The secret of it all is that there is no secret, and no God and no heaven and no hell. And if you say well what is life about I’ll say it’s about like, and that’s all.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStan Barstow\u003c\/strong\u003e was one of a generation of Northern writers including John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, David Storey and Keith Waterhouse who, fifty years ago, took the literary establishment by storm with their gritty accounts of working-class life. Their arrival marked a revolution in English literature the effects of which continue to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarstow was born in Horbury in the West Riding of Yorkshire in 1928. He was the only son of a miner. He left school at sixteen to work as a draughtsman in a local engineering firm. His first published novel, \u003cem\u003eA Kind of Loving\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared in 1960 to great acclaim, was made into a ground-breaking film and later adapted for television, radio and theatre. For many years a fixture on school reading lists, it has never been out of print. In a productive career Barstow wrote ten more novels (including two sequels to \u003cem\u003eA Kind of Loving\u003c\/em\u003e), three collections of short stories (published in one volume by Parthian as \u003cem\u003eThe Likes of Us\u003c\/em\u003e) as well as award-winning scripts for television, radio and theatre. His work has been translated into many languages and is taught in schools and colleges all over the world. He was an honorary MA of the Open University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Welsh Academy. In 2000 he moved to Pontardawe in south Wales with his partner, the distinguished radio playwright Diana Griffiths. He died on 1st August 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stan Barstow","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55532300337528,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/7086\/files\/9781917140775.jpg?v=1776252996","url":"https:\/\/www.parthianbooks.com\/products\/a-kind-of-loving-2","provider":"Parthian Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}