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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).
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.
Stan Barstow was a writer of northern working-class fiction who rose to fame with his debut novel, A Kind of Loving, in 1960. The novel was adapted into a film by John Schlesinger and became a classic of the British New Wave cinema.
Jun 24, 2024 · 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 - a biography. Stan Barstow was born in 1928 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His father was a coal miner, and he was the only son. He attended Ossett Grammar School, and left at sixteen to join a local engineering firm, working in the drawing office.
Stan Barstow has 38 books on Goodreads with 5207 ratings. Stan Barstow’s most popular book is A Kind of Loving.
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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.
