Likes of Us, The - Stories of Five Decades

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A classic selection of the best of Stan Barstow’s stories covering the last five decades of British life. A group of young tearaways on a night out that begins with horse-play and ends in tragedy; the loneliness of a drunken miner’s wife; a war-shocked ex-sailor forced beyond endurance, a widower is brought to grief by a woman outside his real understanding, a factory worker finding his way through the physical world of his marriage — real and involving, Barstow’s stories are urgent slices of life, men and women struggling and succeeding to come to terms with The Likes of Us. Show more