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4.0 out of 5 stars
Working Class England - Post War,
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This review is from: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Vintage International) (Paperback)
Alan Sillitoe's main character Arthur is a young man working at a bicycle plant in industrial post WWII England. His life is essentially drifting between meaningless piecework and weekends of heavy drinking and pursuing other men's wives. We first meet Arthur as he is blind drunk and falling down a flight of stairs in a pub. The novel captures a period in England that seems bleak except when contrasted with what had come just before and in comparison to the deprivations of the war period the people in Sillitoe's story are enjoying a relative level of prosperity.
Arthur is the classic angry young man who is going through life trying to avoid commitments with all his being. The second part of the novel has him beginning to accept that he is ultimately hooked. I enjoyed the book very much and it's depictions of English life in a specific place and time were spot on. |
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Vintage International) by Alan Sillitoe (Paperback - March 2, 2010)
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