Alan Sillitoe

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born

March 04, 1928 in Nottingham, The United Kingdom

died

April 25, 2010

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it).
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Books by Alan Sillitoe

Average rating: 3.77 · 2,048 ratings · 158 reviews · 61 distinct works

	The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner 3.80 avg rating — 1,112 ratings — published 1959 — 42 editions	My rating:
	Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 3.74 avg rating — 658 ratings — published 1958 — 33 editions	My rating:
	A Start In Life 3.86 avg rating — 29 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	New and Collected Stories 4.25 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	The Ragman's Daughter 3.83 avg rating — 24 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	death of William Posters. 3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1969 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Raw Material 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	Travels In Nihilon 3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Birthday 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Collected Stories 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Alan Sillitoe

“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

tags: arthur , life-lessons , reflection , working-class

4 people liked it

“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 around female waists, and felt the beer going beneficially down into the elastic capacity of your guts.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

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Polls

Vote for our July group read (Beyond 1940)

The Hours by Michael Cunningham (1998)

12 votes, 52.2%

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe (1950)

7 votes, 30.4%

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by J.D. Salinger (1963)

2 votes, 8.7%

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (1994)

2 votes, 8.7%

23 total votes

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