David Storey - Style

Style

Storey's novels are often perceived as belonging to the realist tradition, with long descriptive passages detailing many items that appear, at least superficially, to play no role in furthering the plot. Much of his work features isolated men trying to escape or connect.

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Famous quotes containing the word style:

    One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.
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    One who has given up any hope of winning a fight or has clearly lost it wants his style in fighting to be admired all the more.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)