All of them treat one or both of these themes: (a) the painful and sometimes insoluble conflict between working-class parents and their educated children; (b) the suffering or psychic disintegration of protagonists (all of them isolated, moody, self-tortured) who cannot balance their inner/spiritual lives with their outer/physical lives, and their attempts to achieve "wholeness," to gain some sort of intellectual or emotional control. All of the novels draw somehow on Storey's experiences, during his youth and early manhood, as a professional rugby player, farm worker, erector of showground tents, artist, and schoolteacher, and all of them graphically chronicle the lives of the "north country" people who live amid the smoke-and-steam-belching factories, mills, and collieries of gray industrial towns in Yorkshire, where he grew up. The major passage in the author's life came when he moved away from these people of the West Riding, and their value system, to join the educated class in London. The effects of his social, geographical, and intellectual uprooting are everywhere dramatized in his writing.
David Malcolm Storey was born in the industrial city of Wakefield on 13 July 1933, the third of four sons of Frank Richmond Storey, a Yorkshire coal miner, and Lily Cartwright Storey.
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