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Author: Alan Sillitoe
Published: 1958
Publisher: W H Allen, London
First edition/first impression (‘W. H. ALLENLONDON 1958’); UK; hardbackwith dust wrapper (not price-clipped, showing 13s 6d net); covered in clear,removable protective wrapper
True first edition of the quintessential Angry Young Man text, the firstnovel by British author Alan Sillitoe.
Set in post-war Nottingham, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning followsArthur Seaton, a rebellious, anti-establishment factory worker who escapes themonotony of his weekday labour through a hedonistic routine of heavy drinkingand reckless, overlapping affairs with married women. And then finds it mightbe time to grow up a bit.
A key, early work in the British Angry Young Man movement, preceded by JohnOsborne’s Look Back in Anger and John Braine’s Room at the Top,published before the movement went more mainstream in the films of the early60s.
\"What I\'m out for is a good time — all the rest is propaganda!\"
\"Don\'t let the bastards grind you down!\"
Dust wrapper illustration by the British painter & illustrator MonaMoore, who also provided the illustration for Sillitoe’s subsequent book TheLoneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Borninto decidedly working-class poverty in Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe was aself-taught intellectual and a defining voice of post-war British literature.He skyrocketed to fame with his gritty, rebellious masterpieces SaturdayNight and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner,which captured the raw reality of working-class life. By the time of his deathin 2010, he had published over 20 novels, along with many collections of shortstories, poetry collections, books for children, books of essays, travel books,plays, translations, and an autobiography.
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