Understanding Alan Sillitoe offers an appraisal of the life and works of the contemporary British writer recognized by critics as the literary descendent of D. H. Lawrence. Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than fifty books over the last forty years, including novels, plays, and collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals the influences on Sillitoe and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.
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Gillian Hanson provides her audience with a comprehensive and technically wonderful critical analysis of Silitoe's works - in effect, a brilliant overview of one the twentieth century's greatest writers. Hanson displays an amazing aptitude for conveying the inherent meaning in Silitoe's writing - an almost uncanny understanding of the thoughts and emotions that drove his fiction. It is an excellent choice for either scholarly efforts or casual reading - highly recommended.
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Alan Sillitoe was born into a working-class family in Nottingham, England, on 4 March 1928. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe, Arthur Seaton, Colin Smith, White Goddess, The Ragman's Daughter, Goose Fair, Noah's Ark, Second World War, Paul Morton, Uncle Ernest, King Arthur, Life of Margaret, River Trent, Ron Delph, The Good Women, Ernest Cotgrave, Scream of Toys, William Posters, Brian Seaton, Leonard's War, Liza Atkin, Robert Graves, The Second Chance, The Storyteller New!
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Alan Sillitoe was born into a working-class family in Nottingham, England, on 4 March 1928. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Alan Sillitoe, Arthur Seaton, Colin Smith, White Goddess, The Ragman's Daughter, Goose Fair, Noah's Ark, Second World War, Paul Morton, Uncle Ernest, King Arthur, Life of Margaret, River Trent, Ron Delph, The Good Women, Ernest Cotgrave, Scream of Toys, William Posters, Brian Seaton, Leonard's War, Liza Atkin, Robert Graves, The Second Chance, The Storyteller New!
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- The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (Contemporary Fiction, Plume) by Alan Sillitoe on 19 pages
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Plume Contemporary Fiction) by Alan Sillitoe on 15 pages
- Raw Material by Alan Sillitoe on 6 pages
- White Goddess by Robert Graves on 6 pages
- Her Victory by Alan Sillitoe on 5 pages
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