Alan Sillitoe is novelist with a remarkable gift for portrayal of working-class life and attitudes. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. Very good condition with dust cover, however some light marks and creases towards the top of cover.