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A Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. It has also been translated into a film of the same name, a television series, a radio play and a stage play.
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A Kind of Loving offers a no-frills snapshot into a young working class man's life in the middle part of the 20th century. Vic Brown tells us his tale and he ensures the reader feels his joy, pain, lust and hatred as it all spills out across the pages.
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Jul 28, 2024 · “A Kind of Loving” Stan Barstow (born June 28, 1928, Horbury, Yorkshire [now in West Yorkshire], England—died August 1, 2011, Port Talbot, Wales) was an English novelist who was noted for his unsentimental depiction of working-class life.
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Stan Barstow, the novelist, playwright and scriptwriter, began writing his first short story in 1951 on honeymoon. It was at the suggestion ofhis wife, Connie, on a rainy afternoon in their Lake...
May 1, 2011 · Stan Barstow's landmark 'Brit-Lit' novel of the sixties immortalized Vic Brown, the amiable working class lad from the North and led the way for author's like Nick Hornby writing similar slice-of-life drama.
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Feb 14, 2021 · Barstow captures the very essence of a northern, working class voice in Vic Brown. The dialogue is spectacularly real, the places gritty and four dimensional, and the plot terrifyingly universal – we all know someone that has experienced this, though it may be hidden in plain sight.
He was best known for his 1960 novel A Kind of Loving, which has been turned into a film, a television series, a radio play and a stage play. The author's other novels included Ask Me Tomorrow (1962), The Watchers on the Shore (1966) and The Right True End (1976).
