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‘That rarest of all finds: a genuine no-punches-pulled, unromanticised working class novel. Mr Sillitoe is a born writer, who knows his milieu and describes it with vivid, loving precision.’ Daily Telegraph
‘His writing has real experience in it and an instinctive accuracy that never loses its touch. His book has a glow about it as though he had plugged it into some basic source of the working-class spirit.’ Guardian
‘Miles nearer the real thing than D.H.Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came.’ Sunday Express
‘Outspoken and vivid.’ Sunday Times
‘A refreshing originality.’ Times Literary Supplement
Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928 and left school at 14 to work in various factories. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. His first stories were printed in the ‘Nottingham Weekly Guardian’. In 1958 ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ was published and ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’, which won the Hawthornden prize for Literature, came out the following year. Both these books were made into films.
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1973 reprint. Dust jacket has light wear and is in a protective sleeve. Ex library with usual stamps and labels, a little foxing to the page edges.Shipped from the UK in recyclable card packaging. Seller Inventory # pb004-124-0161
Book Description hardcover. Condition: acceptable. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. reprint. EX-LIBRARY hardback with dustjacket, published by W. H. Allen, 1975. 222pp. Heavy bumping to spine, plastic cover, usual library marks. Jacket is bonded to boards. Light tanning to pages. Fair copy. book. Seller Inventory # 13617868
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. W. H. Allen, 1958. RARE 1st edition hardback, no dustjacket. 213pp. Very slight bumping to spine, creasing to spine & marking to cover, inscription to flylleaf & light tanning to pages. Good 1st edition copy, sadly lacking jacket. book. Seller Inventory # 13616779