This Sporting Life (novel)

This Sporting Life is a 1960 novel by the English writer David Storey.^[1] It is set in Northern England and follows a man who tries to make it as a professional rugby league footballer. It was the debut novel of Storey, himself a former player for Leeds.

The book was the basis for Lindsay Anderson's 1963 film This Sporting Life.^[2]^[3]

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Associated writers	Kingsley Amis John Arden Stan Barstow Edward Bond John Braine Michael Hastings Thomas Hinde Stuart Holroyd Bill Hopkins John Osborne Harold Pinter Alan Sillitoe David Storey Kenneth Tynan John Wain Keith Waterhouse Arnold Wesker Colin Wilson
Key works	Billy Liar Declaration The Divine and the Decay Emergence from Chaos The Entertainer A Kind of Loving "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" Look Back in Anger Lucky Jim The Outsider Room at the Top Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Saved Serjeant Musgrave's Dance This Sporting Life
Related	The Angry Young Men: A Literary Comedy of the 1950s British New Wave Kitchen sink realism The Movement

This Sporting Life (novel)

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