Present Times
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‘Promising.’
‘Promising.’
From below came the sound of the baby crying but Wilkins’s attention was focused not so much on that as on the view outside the window: his gaze had been caught by a distant glimmer – the sunlight, perhaps, on the rails in the cutting – flashing once – a single beam – before it settled and, with a strange persistency, shone out above the town.
About the Author
David Storey was born in 1933 in Yorkshire, England, and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. His novels have won many prizes, including the Macmillan Fiction Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Man Booker Prize. He is also the author of fifteen plays and is a fellow of University College London. Storey lives in London with his wife and four children.
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Copyright © 1984 by David Storey
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ISBN: 978-1-5040-1515-8
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