SILLITOE ALAN

(P/B) THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
From the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was fi...
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(P/B) SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
With a new introduction by Richard Bradford. Alan Sillitoe’s classic novel of the 1950s, reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its original publication. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel, he knows what he wants, and he's sharp enough to get it. Before long, his carryings-on with a couple of married women is local gossip. But then one evening he meets a young girl in a pub, and Arthur's life begins to look less simple... First publishe...
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(P/B) MOGGERHANGER
Never before published, Moggerhanger is the last novel written by iconic British writer Alan Sillitoe before his death in 2010. Originally intended as the third part in a trilogy, the first two of which, A Start in Life and Life Goes On, were published in England but not in America, Moggerhanger stands on its own as the last act in an amazing writer's career, a madcap, bawdy, boisterous, and above all comic novel written in a masterly, unflinching hand, Sillitoe's Don Quixote. Michael Cullen, the narrator of Moggerhanger, is an aimless and...
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