Well, I have one more nomination so I'll throw out Saville by David Storey, which won the Booker Prize.
From Goodreads:
Colin Saville grows up in a mining village in South Yorkshire, against the background of war, of an industrialised countryside, of town and coalmine and village.
"If you haven't read David Storey's 1976 winner Saville read it at once, it is the best of all the Bookers." - The Observer
And since any abstracts about the book I could find were all as short as the one I used above, I'll also include the first review from Goodreads:
"This novel epitomizes one of my favorite quotes:
'Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.' - Boris Pasternak
Reading this book really is an extraordinary experience! I found much of it to be very comforting, very homey. I found other parts to be quite disturbing. This novel affected me in ways that I'm still trying to sort out. I suspect this is a story that I'll continue to think about, to try to come to terms with it, for a long time." - John
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