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PASMORE

David Storey was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire in 1933 and studied at the Slade School of Art. His first two novels were both published in 1960, a few months apart: This Sporting Life, which won the Macmillan Fiction Award and was adapted for an award-winning 1963 film, and Flight Into Camden, which won the Somerset Maugham Award. His next novel, Radcliffe (1963), met with widespread critical acclaim in both England and the United States, and during the 1960s and 70s, Storey became widely known for his plays, several of which achieved great success. He returned to fiction in 1972 with Pasmore, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Saville (1976) won the Booker Prize and has been hailed by the Observer as ‘the best of all the Bookers’. More recently, he has published A Serious Man (1998), As It Happened (2002), and Thin-Ice Skater (2004). He lives in London.

Cover: The cover reproduces the front panel of the original 1972 dust jacket, with art by the author. This jacket design was used for both the British (Longmans) and American (E. P. Dutton) first editions of the novel.

Also by David Storey

This Sporting Life (1960)

Flight Into Camden (1960)

Radcliffe (1963)*

Pasmore (1972)*

A Temporary Life (1973)

Saville (1976)*

A Prodigal Child (1982)

Present Times (1984)

A Serious Man (1998)

As It Happened (2002)

Thin-Ice Skater (2004)

* Available from Valancourt Books

DAVID STOREY

Pasmore

Kansas City:

VALANCOURT BOOKS

2013

Pasmore by David Storey

First published London: Longmans, 1972

First Valancourt Books edition 2013

The right of David Storey to be identified as Author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Published by Valancourt Books, Kansas City, Missouri

Publisher & Editor: James D. Jenkins

20th Century Series Editor: Simon Stern, University of Toronto

All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher, constitutes an infringement of the copyright law.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

isbn 978-1-939140-55-5

All Valancourt Books publications are printed on acid free paper that meets all ANSI standards for archival quality paper.

Cover art by David Storey

Set in Dante MT 11/13. 5

PART I

One

He woke to find the room full of sunlight.

A dull pain throbbed between his eyes. His face was covered with sweat.

When he turned on his side he saw that Kay was still asleep, her face sunk down in the pillows, almost hidden.

The children, presumably, had been in to open the curtains. He could hear them crashing about in their room at the front of the house. The alarm hadn’t rung yet. It was almost seven o’clock.

When he went down to the kitchen his eldest daughter, Susan, appeared on the stairs. ‘Are you making some tea?’ she said.