Stan Barstow achieved fame as one of a group of novelists from northern England with working-class backgrounds who began to attract critical attention in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Like others in t...
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Stan Barstow's short stories have become progressively more noteworthy since the 1960s. That results both from increasingly complex and effective technical artistry and from increasingly profound and ...
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Stan Barstow is a major figure in an important postwar movement in English fiction, one that for the first time put working-class novelists, most of them from the north of England, in a visible and ce...
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