Flight Into Camden by David Storey

Flight Into Camden by David Storey

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The first-person story of Margaret, a miner's daughter, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in London. But in the end, family ties prove too strong for this ambiguous relationship, which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.

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Flight Into Camden by David Storey

This moving story is recounted by Margaret, the daughter of a Yorshire miner, who falls in love with a married teacher and goes to live with him in a room in Camden Town, London. Many critics have observed and almost lawrentian fidelity in the descriptions of their love-making and the intricacies of their emotional responses to one another. But in the end family ties prove too strong for an ambiguous relationship which begins to disclose a chasm of emptiness and bitterness.
David Storey was born in 1933 in Wakefield, and studied at the Slade School of Art. His novels have won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Faber Memorial Prize and, in 1976, the Booker Prize for Saville. He is also the author of fifteen plays. He lives in London.
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ISBN 13 9780099274773
ISBN 10 0099274779
Title Flight Into Camden
Author David Storey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 2000-02-03
Number of pages 240
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