Jim Duggan’s Reviews > The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner > Status Update

I’ve often ruminated on what happens to books a few decades old; why they seem to fall out of fashion. Now I understand. There is nothing wrong with the stories or the writing, but the world they describe is long gone.

Just not long enough to endow these stories with ‘classic’ status.

East Midlands accent is tickling me. I forgot Alan Sillitoe was a (relatively) local lad.