Presentation copy of the second impression, the same year as the first, inscribed "For Jim, from David Storey, 1960" on the front free endpaper. This Sporting Life, Storey's first novel, won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the adapted screenplay for the 1963 British feature film of the same title.
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