The novelist brings skill and hard-won wisdom to a meditation on the contrast between his life and his brother's struggles and early death While hardly well trodden, the path from the provincial working class to metropolitan literary success is not exactly virgin territory. It's the journey that in the 1950s and 1960s produced the new wave of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and David Storey, often referred to as "angry young men". That description rather did for the aspirant male working class tha...
O Brother by John Niven review - a searing study of siblings who go separate ways
The Guardian - 20 Aug 2023 11:30
The novelist brings skill and hard-won wisdom to a meditation on the contrast between his life and his brother's struggles and early death While hardly well trodden, the path from the provincial working class to metropolitan literary success is not exactly virgin territory. It's the journey that in the 1950s and 1960s produced the new wave of writers such as Alan Sillitoe and David Storey, often referred to as "angry young men". That description rather did for the aspirant male working class tha...
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