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| Title | : | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
| Author | : | Alan Sillitoe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1992 by Plume (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. Novels. Modern Classics. 20th Century |
Alan Sillitoe
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.83 | 3615 Users | 199 Reviews
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To Arthur Seaton, Key worker on a lathe in a Nottingham cycle factory, life is one long battle with authority. You don't need to give Arthur more than one chance to do the Government or trick the foreman. And when the day's work is over, Arthur is off to the pubs, raring for adventure. He is a warrior of the bottle and the bedroom - his slogan is 'If it's going, it's for me' - for his aim is to cheat the world before it can cheat him. And never is the battle more fiercely joined than on Saturday night. But Sunday morning is the time of reckoning, the time for facing up to life - the time, too, you run the risk of getting hooked! Arthur is no exception.Present Books Toward Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
| Original Title: | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
| ISBN: | 0452269091 (ISBN13: 9780452269095) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (1958) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 3615 Users | 199 ReviewsCrit About Books Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Interesting, and I can see why it was so subversive and necessary (extra-marital shagging, boozing, deeply unpatriotic about the war and about National Service, etc) - but really not what I expected. I thought it was going to be a 'kitchen sink' socialist piece about hardship and hope, in the spirit of Love on the Dole. It isn't: it's almost proto-Thatcherite or proto-punk, even. Arthur ain't no socialist: he hates paying taxes, hates unions (as well as employers), wants to blow stuff up andAlternatively: misogyny, the novel. No, okay, although the main character is a dick, this book read really quickly and I found myself quite enjoying it. Despite the portrayal and treatment of women, that is.
First published in 1958 my edition is the 50th anniversary one. It is set in the years immediately following the second world war, in a working class community which has now largely disappeared. Its central character is Arthur, a 20 year old Lothario who works and plays hard. There's lots to dislike about him: he is a cheat, with a cuckoo's preference for the marital nests of others. But he is a real professional who seduces the reader along with the rest. He should get caught of course?... I
Don't let the bastards grind you down.
Some great phrases that speak to the truisms of the working man's life: "For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the year, a violent preamble to a prostrate Sabbath. Piled up passions were exploded on Saturday night, and the effect of a week's monotonous graft in the factory was swilled out of your system in a burst of goodwill. You followed the motto of 'be drunk and be happy,' kept your crafty arms
I enjoyed this (very much in certain parts), but maybe not as much as The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. Good stuff though.
In working class England, in the 1950s, a young man finally decides to grow up.
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