A Start in Life (London Books Classics)
Language: English
Published by London Books, 2008
- Signed
- Hardcover
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Originally published in 1970, this edition from 2008. Signed and dated by the author 25/6/2008. In mint condition.
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- Title
- A Start in Life (London Books Classics)
- Author
- Alan Sillitoe
- Publisher
- London Books
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0955185114
- ISBN 13
- 9780955185113
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 480 grams
- Dimensions
- 3.4 centimeters width by 13.7 centimeters height by 20.6 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 1 of 3: The Michael Cullen Novels
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About the Author
He has been labelled as one of the `angry young men' of the 1950s and 1960s whose books (and films of their books) popularised so-called `kitchen sink drama' and dared write about the provincial working classes. Sillitoe has always rejected this categorisation but he, probably more than any of the group classed as such, had reason to be angry. Born in 1928 in working-class Nottingham the main problem was that not many people were actually working. Sillitoe's father certainly wasn't and young Alan grew up in the 1930s depression years surrounded by poverty and the grinding despair it can often bring. The boy found his refuge in reading and later in writing.
After leaving school at 14 Alan stepped on to the treadmill of factory work including 4 years at the Raleigh bicycle factory; an experience he drew upon in the creation of Arthur Seaton. Whilst serving in the RAF he was stricken with TB and spent 16 months in hospital where he began to write in earnest. Encouraged by renowned writer, Robert Graves, who he met on the island of Mallorca, Sillitoe embarked on the novel Saturday Night, Sunday Morning in 1956. Following a round of rejections the book was taken by W H Allen and published in 1958 and filmed in 1960. Despite, or because of, its then highly controversial themes of abortion, sex, violence, masculinity, frustration and class, the book was a thumping commercial success.
The next book The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner was a collection of short stories with the title novella telling of a borstal boy who bucks the system in a novel way. In a society that had just seen the first ascent of confrontational youth culture in the shape of Teddy Boys, and was about to experience Mods and Rockers, the book chimed loudly with the reading public. This was also filmed, this time with a youthfully rebellious Tom Courtenay in the title role. Sillitoe's literary reputation was secured.
Alan Sillitoe has scarcely had time to concern himself with reputation though being religiously devoted to writing and producing at least 50 books since 1958 and saddling a range of genres. Now, in his 80th year, he remains as active, prolific and relevant as he ever was. A Man of His Time published in 2004 and being the dramatised story of Sillitoe's blacksmith grandfather was generally agreed to be on a par with anything he had produced as a young man in his 30s and 40s. His body of work which includes poetry, autobiography, history, childrens' books and travel as well as his trademark, powerful and authentic fiction, demands that he be considered as England's greatest living author.
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