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Literary Fiction · MelancholicA miner's son from a Yorkshire pit village wins a scholarship and leaves his class behind
Saville
by David Storey
1976506 pagesModerate readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 1976
A coal-mining boyhood in postwar Yorkshire
The novel follows Colin Saville from childhood in a Yorkshire mining village after the Second World War. As his schooling takes him away from the life of his father and the other miners, he becomes more distant from his family and his home. It won the 1976 Booker Prize.
More about this book
Who
Colin Saville and his family in a Yorkshire mining village.
World
A coal-mining village in Yorkshire from the 1940s on.
What makes it different
It follows one boy's growing up across a whole community.
Feel
Gritty and observant.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
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