{"product_id":"the-right-true-end","title":"The Right True End (The Vic Brown Trilogy #3)","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\u003eFollowing \u003cem\u003eA Kind of Loving\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Watchers on the Shore\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Right True End\u003c\/em\u003e is the third and final instalment of the Vic Brown trilogy. Now into his thirties and divorced from Ingrid Rothwell, Vic has made it on his own terms in London. With a prize job, work trips abroad, a flash car, decent digs and a lively sex life, all is plain sailing until he’s suddenly called back home and the reappearance of people from his past make him question his present. Ten years ago, with Donna, he knew he had something real, but when she comes back into his life, he’s scared of messing up his chances a second time round and living to regret it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“very few things in this life come perfect and gift-wrapped. You’ve got to decide what you want, then get off your arse and go and find if it’s available”\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":55532308201848,"sku":null,"price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1097\/7086\/files\/9781917140799.jpg?v=1776253263","url":"https:\/\/www.parthianbooks.com\/products\/the-right-true-end","provider":"Parthian Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}