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Stan Barstow – A Kind of Loving – First UK Edition 1960
£125.00
First edition, first printing of A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow, published by Michael Joseph, London in 1960. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with toning and spotting to the text block. In a similarly near fine unclipped wrapper, with light chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and shelf wear to the rear panel. Wrapper design by Adrian Bailey.
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow is a defining novel of Britain’s “kitchen sink” realism. It follows Vic Brown, a young draftsman in a northern industrial town, who drifts into marriage after his girlfriend Ingrid becomes pregnant. The novel portrays working-class life with honesty, highlighting tensions between desire, duty and social expectations. Barstow captures the frustrations of limited choices, the struggle for intimacy and the yearning for self-fulfilment in a changing post-war society.
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First edition, first printing of A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow, published by Michael Joseph, London in 1960. A near fine copy free from internal inscriptions, with toning and spotting to the text block. In a similarly near fine unclipped wrapper, with light chipping to the spine tips and knuckles of front and rear flap folds, fading to the spine and shelf wear to the rear panel. Wrapper design by Adrian Bailey.
A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow is a defining novel of Britain’s “kitchen sink” realism. It follows Vic Brown, a young draftsman in a northern industrial town, who drifts into marriage after his girlfriend Ingrid becomes pregnant. The novel portrays working-class life with honesty, highlighting tensions between desire, duty and social expectations. Barstow captures the frustrations of limited choices, the struggle for intimacy and the yearning for self-fulfilment in a changing post-war society.
