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 Birthday - Alan Sillitoe
Description: ISBN 0007108834 / Author: Alan Sillitoe / Genre: Fiction / Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the ... more  Birthday - Alan Sillitoe ... 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British Literature, we re-discover the Seaton brothers: older, cetainly; wiser - possibly not. Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional knapsack of failure and success, are on their way to Jenny's 70th birthday party.Newest Review: ... in which the young Arthur drinks a lot, falls down, pukes, shags Brenda - the missus of a workmate (getting her "up the ... more ... stick" and in need of a
back-street abortion) and gets beaten up by a "swaddie" for shagging Brenda's married sister Winnie too. He ends up getting engaged to a 19-year-old girl called Doreen. The 1960 film version of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, starring Albert Finney and Shirley Anne Field, shot on location in Nottingham, featured particularly memorable scene where Arthur, arme...more |
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Format: paperback, Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN: 000
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Birthday - Alan Sillitoe: many not-so-happy returns (1097 words)
by pje - written on 23/06/01 (Very useful, 151 readings)
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"The older you get the more people around you kick the bucket." So says Arthur Seaton, the angry young man of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, who is now a grumpy sixty year-old man. It has taken Alan Sillitoe forty years to return to the character that made his name, but it has been well worth the wait. But first, for the benefit of those of you not from Nottingham, or not old enough to remember Saturday Night and Sunday Morning or who haven't read my review of it elsewhere, you have some catching up to do... The Author ...
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