The Collected Novels Volume Three: Thin-Ice Skater, As It Happened, and Present Times

Three thought-provoking novels from the Man Booker Prize–winning British novelist of This Sporting Life and "an absorbing writer" (The New Yorker).

The son of a coal miner who went on to play professionally in the rugby league, British author David Storey drew heavily on his own background for his debut novel, This Sporting Life, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award and was made into a film with Richard Harris. "The leading novelist of his generation," Storey was also a playwright...