Pasmore

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1972

To all external appearances, Colin Pasmore has a happy life: not yet thirty, with a wife, three children, a nice home, and a good job as a university lecturer, everything seems to be going right. But after he is beset by a recurring nightmare, he begins to experience the terrifying sensation that his whole life is unravelling. He is suddenly unable to bear the presence of friends and family, incapable of touching or communicating with his wife, dissatisfied and even embarrassed by his job. He finds himself looking on in helpless horror, struggling to understand why his entire world is disintegrating around him. . .

*Pasmore* (1972), David Storey’s fourth novel, won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. This new edition is the first in more than 25 years and features the original jacket art by the author. Storey’s *Radcliffe* and *Saville* (winner of the Booker Prize) are also available from Valancourt Books.

‘The leading novelist of his generation.’ - *Daily Telegraph*

‘Storey’s fiction ought to . . . secure his reputation as one of the most original writers of his generation.’ - *The Guardian*

‘Remarkable . . . an admirable piece of writing.’ - *Boston Globe*

‘Swift, clean and painful . . . as good as anything he has done.’ - *The Times (London)*