From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Middleton's Booker Prize win.
Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.
Stanley Middleton, once dubbed “The Chekhov of Suburbia”, is to the
Midlands suburb what Anne Tyler is to the Midwest picket fence
*The Times*
Middleton is concerned with what goes on below the surface of
lives, what people feel, dream about, hope for, resent, fear – all
the things that in real life may be kept hidden… Anyone coming to
Middleton afresh has a real treat in store.
*Scotsman*
We need Stanley Middleton to remind us of what the novel is
about.
*Sunday Times*
What is so extraordinary about Mr Middleton’s talent is that,
despite implacable domesticity, he is not trivial… Mr Middleton
does not wish to change anybody’s view of the world; he only wants
to help the readers understand and better the view of it that they
already have, and his quietness, honesty and patience do indeed
lead him to success in that endeavour.
*Bernard Levin*
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