The Open Door - Hardcover

Sillitoe, Alan; Fainlight, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1907869638 ISBN 13: 9781907869631

Publisher: Five Leaves Publications, 2012

Synopsis

The Open Door, first published in 1989, is the third Alan Sillitoe book to feature the Seaton family. Though Arthur Seaton, of Sunday Night and Monday morning, does feature, the focus is on his brother Brian Seaton. Just as he is about to leave the RAF he finds that he has TB. This disrupts his plans to return home - his marriage was in any case in difficulty - and the novel switches between Nottingham and the RAF sanitorium. Seaton is also torn between women - having affairs with two of the nurses at the sanitorium, while becoming involved with a young woman in his home town, who also has TB. The Open Door is a wonderful period novel, set in 1949 against the background of post-war austerity. The book is introduced by Ruth Fainlight.

About this title

About the Author

Alan Sillitoe was the author of many novels, the best known being Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and the short story collection The Loneliness of the Long Distrance Runner. He also wrote playscripts, poetrry and books for children. Alan Sillitoe died in 2010. Ruth Fainlight, who introduces this edition of the novel, is a poet and translator, who married Alan Sillitoe in 1959.

Edition details

• Publisher: Five Leaves Publications
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907869638
• ISBN 13: 9781907869631
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 354