Saville (novel)

{{short description|1976 novel by David Storey}}

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| language = English

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| publisher = Jonathan Cape

| release_date = 1976

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| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 506

| isbn = 0-224-01273-8

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Saville is a Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer David Storey.

Plot

The novel centres on Colin, a young boy growing up in the Yorkshire mining village of Saxton during the Second World War and the postwar years.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4b2rj8kJ15gC&pg=PT772|first=John|last=Sutherland|title=How to be Well Read: A Guide to 500 Great Novels and a Handful of Literary Curiosities|year=2014|location=London|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-1847946409}}

Awards

Saville won the 1976 Booker Prize for fiction.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/18/david-storey-monty-python|title=Booker club: Saville|first=Sam|last=Jordison|work=The Guardian|date=18 November 2008|accessdate=31 March 2017}}

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