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Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and is sharp enough to get it. Then one evening, he meets a young girl in a pub, and his life begins to look less simple.
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Review:
Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel. "The New Yorker"
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"
Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now. "The Guardian"
One of the best English writers of the day. "The New York Times Book Review"
There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things. "Literary Review"
A master storyteller. "The Observer"
Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came. "Sunday Express"
Outspoken and vivid. "Sunday Times," London"
"Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel."--The New Yorker
"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
"Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now."--The Guardian
"One of the best English writers of the day." --The New York Times Book Review
"There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things." --Literary Review
"A master storyteller." --The Observer
"Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came."--Sunday Express
"Outspoken and vivid."--Sunday Times, London
-Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel.---The New Yorker
-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
-Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now.---The Guardian
-One of the best English writers of the day.- --The New York Times Book Review
-There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things.- --Literary Review
-A master storyteller.- --The Observer
-Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came.---Sunday Express
-Outspoken and vivid.---Sunday Times, London
About the Author:
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"
Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now. "The Guardian"
One of the best English writers of the day. "The New York Times Book Review"
There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things. "Literary Review"
A master storyteller. "The Observer"
Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came. "Sunday Express"
Outspoken and vivid. "Sunday Times," London"
"Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel."--The New Yorker
"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
"Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now."--The Guardian
"One of the best English writers of the day." --The New York Times Book Review
"There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things." --Literary Review
"A master storyteller." --The Observer
"Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came."--Sunday Express
"Outspoken and vivid."--Sunday Times, London
-Brilliant. . . . [Sillitoe] has assured himself a place in the history of the English novel.---The New Yorker
-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
-Sillitoe's account of the rebellious young factory-fodder hero Arthur Seaton was timely when first published. . . . It is timeless now.---The Guardian
-One of the best English writers of the day.- --The New York Times Book Review
-There are few writers around who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the complicated business of noticing things.- --Literary Review
-A master storyteller.- --The Observer
-Miles nearer the real thing than D.H. Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came.---Sunday Express
-Outspoken and vivid.---Sunday Times, London
Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928, the son of a tannery worker. He left school at age fourteen to work in a factory. He was one of the working-class novelists who revitalized British fiction in the 1950s. His first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was followed with the bestselling collection The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. He adapted both works for the screen in the early 1960s. He is the author of more than 40 works of prose, poetry, and drama.
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- PublisherChivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0745121330
- ISBN 13 9780745121338
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages373
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