2011年10月26日星期三
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And again like Colin we both became, as a result of that education, something previous generations of our permanent-feeling community had never aspired to, perhaps never knew existed. The communal nature of their poverty made this a desire they could not comprehend and NIKE FREE RUN,occasionally his pursuit of his own ends was seen by them - perhaps quite rightly - as errant selfishness. Unlike Colin, we did not aspire to become writers, except of course for me, who eventually tried to become one! It was the education that changed everything and this aspect of Saville is beautifully Timberland Roll-Top Femme portrayed, right down to the visit to the old Kingswell's shop in Wakefield to buy the ludicrously expensive school uniform, a source of pride for the miner's family, but also a pointer indicating how lives will inevitably diverge.Saville also deals with how social mores were changing in the new second half of the twentieth century. Rather it concentrates on a social and economic setting which was quite peculiar to these mining communities in Yorkshire. David Story was born in Wakefield, and so was I. They went on to win at Wembley that year, beating Huddersfield in the game where Neil Fox used a drop goal strategy not seen before or since.But before that cup-tie against Wigan, the packed Trinity ground became a film set. We were all unpaid extras as Richard Harris and members of the Trinity second team filmed some actions Sequences for "This Sporting Life". Wakefield beat Wigan 5-4, with Fred Smith scoring the only try of the game at my end. It was a quality you could not pursue when, as poor people, your lives were always inter-dependent. Also like Colin we went to a grammar school and experienced similar tensions and contradictions as a result of social class differences. What we have is a social document, as powerful and yet as specific as some of its nineteenth century equivalents. Saville won the Booker Prize in 1976. Colin's parents simply could not relate to how his life was developing, perhaps finding hardest to stomach the individuality that he developed and was determined to express. I show no disrespect for Richard Harris by recalling that the sequence required a whole string of takes, necessitated by the fact that the star kept dropping the ball! I have seen the film several times, but I have not yet managed to spot my short-trousered legs behind the sticks at the Belle Vue end. It was filmed in the early 1960s, with Richard Harris playing the starring role. It also evokes a language, a dialect that preserves the use of thee, thy, thou and thine and, although occasionally laboured, the book's specialised vocabulary and syntax create the sound of a Yorkshire twang.Saville has no vast themes, no overtly historical settings against which the characters enact their lives. Along with about 28000 others, I was in Wakefield Trinity's Belle Vue ground soon after midday to make sure that I got a standing place by the railings next to the pitch to see Trinity play Wigan in a cup-tie. I was only ten and needed to be early because, had I been further back amongst the crowd, I would have seen nothing. Like Colin we were brought up in a small Yorkshire mining village. This provides and irony that my own novel set in these same places might bring into focus. Now, after the closure of the pits, though the villages remain, these communities have disappeared to be replaced by settings that perhaps offer less chance of social mobility or self-respect than in Saville's time. In such a vast novel it is inevitable that the pace will occasionally quicken and slacken, but a book like this can be read over weeks, almost dipped into as the passing phases of Colin's life unfold. It could be argued that his most famous and perhaps still most successful work is "This Sporting Life", a portrait of a Rugby League player who achieves local fame and then notoriety as his life and career blossom and then fall apart. Of course, we now live in an age where the individual is the norm, the indivisible unit of society and, perhaps, where an idea of community is mere nostalgia.Nike TN Requin Plating HommeAbove all else David Storey's Saville evokes a time and a place. But this is the book's real strength. They are there, somewhere.I digress at length from my intended review because Colin, the central character of Saville, could easily have been me, or perhaps my older brother. But in Saville's time, the idea that the pits would close never entered anyone's head, a fact which makes Colin's transformation through the book remarkable, credible and yet ultimately sad, since we now see it as effectively driven by necessity, not choice.27 August 2007Philip Spires Author of Mission, an African novel set in Kenya http://www.philipspires.co.uk.
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2011年10月24日星期一
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2011年10月22日星期六
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Other advantages of spring skiing are commonly
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