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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Vintage International)

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A rousing and uproarious novel of the life, loves, and misadventures of a working-class rogue, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning marked the arrival of one of the most cherished authors in the twenty-first century.
 
At twenty-two years of age, Arthur Seaton is a hard-drinking lathe operator in a bicycle factory. Sharp, rowdy, and attractive, he is a lover of life in the raw, and his enormous vitality comes pouring through, at a family party, at the county fair, and in several pubs he haunts on Saturday nights, where more often than not he leaves with a woman on his arm. Before long, however, his devil may care life-style gets him into some serious trouble, and Arthur's life takes a turn that not even he could have imagined. 
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Vintage International)

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Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching “On Saturday Afternoon” to the rollicking “The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.” Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.
 
New and Collected Stories

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With his 1959 novella The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe brought a poetic new voice to working-class England. Certainly no stranger to the harsh realities of blue-collar life himself, Sillitoe was born one of five children to a poor Nottingham factory family. He left school at age fourteen to find work in the very factories from which his father found himself unemployed, and began his writing career during a stint in the Royal Air Force. With the publication of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1958 and the subsequent arrival of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner a year later, Sillitoe quickly established himself as a standout in England’s embittered yet immensely talented "Angry Young Men" school of writers, which included Kingsley Amis and John Osborne.

New and Collected Stories brings together more than forty pieces of short fiction, encompassing Sillitoe’s entire career, and includes several previously unpublished stories. It is an essential collection from an often-overlooked gem in the canon of modern fiction and an abiding literary voice for working-class Britain.


The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: The Biography of Alan Sillitoe

Peter Owen Ltd

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Written with the close co-operation of Alan Sillitoe himself, this book is the definitive work on the legendary writer, and perhaps the most controversial literary biography of the last decade. Through unrestriced access to Sillitoe's papers and personal archives Bradford has crafted the first comprehensive portrait of this brilliant and often contradictory figure. Though proud of his background and Nottingham hometown, Sillitoe rejects the `working-class writer' tag that has been thrust on him, loathes political correctness in all its forms and has retained a somewhat unfashionable Zionism, strongly sympathetic to those who want to protect the Jewish homeland. As well as this, Bradford delves into Silltoe's literary and artistic liasions across mediums, perhaps most notably a long and close friendship with Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes.
Birthday

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Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British Literature, we re-discover the Seaton brothers: older, cetainly; wiser - possibly not. Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional knapsack of failure and success, are on their way to Jenny's 70th birthday party. Jenny and Brian had years ago experimented with sex - semi-clothed, stealthy, with the bonus of fear. Arthur, of course, had cut a winning swathe through the married and unmarried women of Nottinghamshire. Life has changed. Alan Sillitoe is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of our time, and, indeed, one of the most influential.

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Signet)

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A Signet fiction mass market paperback.

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Scots writers remember Adrian Mitchell
Scots writers remember Adrian Mitchell I arrived late and saw Alan Sillitoe coming out. I said: 'Was he any good?' Alan told me: 'He was the star.'” Ms Hewitt was the inspiration of one of her

The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack
The Country Formerly Known as Great Britain by Ian Jack An identity that is untethered and which, in his case, springs from a thousand fragments including the Beano, the novels of Alan Sillitoe and a certain kind

Keith Waterhouse, writer, dies at 80
as it turned out — to write fiction full time, joining an emerging new breed of working-class writers like John Braine and Alan Sillitoe. Keith Waterhouse, British Playwright, Dies at 80all 319 news articles »

Linke und rechte Unterschicht-Ideale
Mordecai Richler ist einfach ein grandioser Schriftsteller, aber Alan Sillitoe hat für sein Buch den besseren Titel gefunden. Denn gute Titel, das wissen and more »

TIPPS FÜR LAUFSEMINARE
Die bekannteste Erzählung von Alan Sillitoe. Es gelang ihm auch in der verknappten Form der Erzählung, die geistige Auflehnung eines in seiner