Saturday Night and Sunday Morning -

Alan Sillitoe

Pan Books

1960

192 páginas

6h 24m

ISBN-13: 0_330_10739_9

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.
Born in Nottingham, son of a labourer in a cycle factory, Alan Sillitoe left school at 14 to work also in a cycle factory. Whilst serving in the RAF in Malaya he became ill and was in hospital for a year.
He has spent some years in the South of France and in Majorca where he became friendly with Robert Graves who encouraged him to write. Awarded the Author's Club prize for the best English first novel of 1958 with "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", he also won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner". Alan Sillitoe now lives in London.