From Coming of Age to Midlife Crisis

Tom Courtney as an angry working class lad in rural England. Burt Lancaster as a depressed upper class New York suburbanite. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and The Swimmer are 1960’s films that were adapted from short stories.

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

The Story

https://ia801907.us.archive.org/29/items/AlanSillitoeTheLonelinessOfTheLongDistanceRunner/Alan-Sillitoe-The-Loneliness-of-the-Long-Distance-Runner.pdf

The Movie

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The Swimmer

The Story

https://loa-shared.s3.amazonaws.com/static/pdf/Cheever_Swimmer.pdf

The Movie