Moggerhanger: A Novel - Softcover

Alan Sillitoe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1609807235 ISBN 13: 9781609807238

Publisher: Seven Stories Press, 2016

Synopsis

AN ICONIC BRITISH TRILOGY GIVEN A NEW LEASE OF LIFE

A rollicking picaresque novel from the author of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (WH Allen, 1959).

Following from A Start in Life (London Books, 2008, also available), and Life Goes On (Granada, 1985), MOGGERHANGER features Michael Cullen, who is now an aimless 40-year-old, a picaresque hero who always seems to end up in trouble.

Having just left his job in advertising, he is employed by his old boss and gang-leader, Moggerhanger. From Nottingham, to London, to France and back, Cullen embarks on a series of journeys (most of them in a Rolls Royce) doing 'jobs' for Moggerhanger while meeting a cast of strange and wonderful characters on the way - ranging from Labrador dogs, crazed poets and endless women, to the members of the Green-Toe-Gang, rat catchers, brothel workers, and investigative journalists. Whilst on his adventures he is joined by his old friend and ex-mercenary soldier, Sergeant William Straw, and is constantly overlooked and entertained by his outrageous father, the famous writer Blaskin, and Blaskin's long-suffering girlfriend.

A brilliantly funny and irreverent Picaresque novel, MOGGERHANGER will, by turns, make you laugh, reel, sigh, and think again about the way we live our lives.

About this title

Review:

"No British novelist of the past half-century so consistently defied the expectations that pundits had of him as Alan Sillitoe." -- The Wall Street Journal

"Always the most quietly eloquent of his cohort of postwar British novelists, Alan Sillitoe was the most scrupulous novelist, too, with a genuinely expansive and humane vision. He belongs to world literature, not merely a certain time and place." - --Jonathan Lethem

About the Author:

Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, and playwright known for his honest, humorous and acerbic accounts of working-class life. Sillitoe served for four years in the RAF and lived for six years in France and Spain, before returning to England. His first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was published in 1958 and was followed by a collection of short stories The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (WH Allen, 1959), which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. With over 50 volumes to his name, Sillitoe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1609807235
• ISBN 13: 9781609807238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512