Again, the background in the novel is like Storey's, for he is the third son of a Yorkshire miner, Frank Richmond Storey, and Lily Cartwright Storey, and frequently deals, in both fiction and drama, with the child of the working classes estranged by his or her education from the values of the parents who worked so hard and selflessly to help provide the education. Born in Wakefield, he attended Queen Elizabeth Grammar School from 1943 to 1951. He studied at the Wakefield Art School from 1951 to 1953, when he went to London to attend the Slade School. In 1956 he married Barbara Rudd Hamilton. The view of Storey as articulating the problems involved in the emergence of a new class, the educated and mobile provincial after World War II, was partly responsible for the popularity and critical recognition of the film version of
This Sporting Life in 1963, for which Storey wrote the screenplay.
With the appearance of Storey's third novel, Radcliffe (1963), in which two tortured boys growing up in different classes in the North are attracted to and finally destroy each other, it was clear that Storey's work could not be regarded as simply a sociological example.
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