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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (Flamingo Modern Classic) (Paperback)

by Alan Sillitoe (Author)
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (25 Oct 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0586090053
  • ISBN-13: 978-0586090053
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 12.9 x 1.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 214,990 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings. A hard-drinking, hard-fighting young rebel of a man, he knows what he wants and he's sharp enough to get it. And 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. Allan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950's is a story of timeless significance. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. "That rarest of all finds: a genuine no-punches-pulled, unromanticised working class novel. Mr Sillitoe is a born writer, who knows his milieu and describes it with vivid, loving precision." - "Daily Telegraph". "His writing has real experience in it and an instinctive accuracy that never loses its touch. His book has a glow about it as though he had plugged it into some basic source of the working-class spirit." - "Guardian". "Miles nearer the real thing than D.H.Lawrence's mystic, brooding working-men ever came." - "Sunday Express". "Very outspoken and vivid." - "Sunday Times". "A refreshing originality." - "Times Literary Supplement".

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Spits In the Eye Of A 'Perfect Past', 27 May 2004
By A. Reynolds "adrian_j_r" (Mexico) - See all my reviews
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Pity poor Arthur Seaton...slaving over a hot lathe at Raleigh Cycles in Nottingham all day in the late 1950's. Age 21 and full of raging energy he is a selfish, hedonistic archetype that some would have us believe did not come into being until the 1980's.

Alan Sillitoe has captured the old industrial Nottingham of the time and, within that context, the Arthur Seaton's are perfectly placed to give us a meaningful glimpse of 'what it was like' to grow up in the relative post-war poverty in that England. That Arthur is a rogue, albeit slightly loveable, highlights the division between spiviness and honesty - hard graft being offset by binges.

As a social document, 'Saturday Night & Sunday Morning'is rich in detail and this makes for a very enjoyable read.

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23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars an unique view of an unique character in 1950's Britain, 10 Mar 2001
Set in 1950's Britain, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning portrays the working class life of Arthur Seaton, a 21 year old, Nottingham factory worker . The reader should have an instant dislike to Arthur, he's a womaniser, lazy, and a liar. But like many of the "Angry Young Men" of the time, Arthur has a certain charm about him which makes it very easy for you to forgive his hedonistic lifestyle, even though it is clear to see the negative effects it has on everyone around him. Sillitoe spits the book into two: Saturday night, when the reader experiences Arthur's drinking, adultery and fighting, and Sunday morning, as the action of Saturday night catches up to Arthur. Sillitoe embodies in his lead protagonist, the serious effects that the Second World War had on a generation, giving an actuate portrayal of the mood of the young in post war Britain. Selfish, superficial and mercenary on the surface, Sillitoe skilfully adds extra dimensions to the character of Arthur through the quality of his writing, Arthur can be both a bastard and a philosopher at the same time. All in all, this is a interesting read into what life was like for a working class youth scared by the Second World War, although on the surface it's a brilliant fable about what can happen if you experience the excesses of life too much .
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars gritty real to life, 7 Oct 2002
By Denise Rollason (Nottingham.England) - See all my reviews
Set in Nottingham, focusing on the life of a young jack the lad, Arthur, as he goes about his daily life, work, drinking and womanising. Brilliant from start to finish, especially interesting to anyone knowing Nottingham and in the film seeing
the old streets as they once were.
A must for any one.
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