English novelist who achieved success with
his first book, A Kind of Loving (1960;
filmed 1962; stage play 1970).
Barstow grew up in a working-class
environment and worked in the engineering
industry until 1962. He was among a group of
young British writers (including Alan
Sillitoe, John Braine, and others) who
achieved immediate success in the 1950s and
’60s with their unsentimental depiction of
working-class life. His later novels include
Joby (1964), The Watchers on the Shore
(1966), A Raging Calm (1968), A Season with
Eros (1971), The Right True End (1976), A
Brother’s Tale (1980), and Just You Wait and
See (1986). He has also written short
stories and adapted several stories and
novels for radio and television. An
autobiography, In My Own Good Time, appeared
in 2001.
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