Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
A Novel
by Alan Sillitoe
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Pub Date Apr 19 2016 | Archive Date Jun 28 2016
Open Road Integrated Media | Open Road Media
Description
Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity . . . and the morning after
Arthur Seaton, a ladies’ man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight of stairs, pass out, and wake up again only to vomit on a middle-aged couple. Luckily Arthur’s lover, Brenda—a married woman with two kids—lets Arthur escape to her bed. Such are Saturdays in this bachelor’s life. When Arthur is not romancing Brenda, evading her husband, or drinking himself silly, he is turning up his nose at authority, disparaging the army, and trying to avoid paying too much income tax. Moreover, Arthur’s rapscallion ways soon lead him into the bed of Brenda’s younger sister—who is also married.
But no matter how much fun there is to be had, every Saturday night has its Sunday morning, replete with hangovers and consequences: A local bigmouth starts gossiping about Arthur’s affairs, Brenda gets pregnant, the husbands find out what’s been going on, and Arthur suffers a terrible beating. Perhaps the time has come for this playboy to settle down and marry that third woman he has been seeing on the side . . .
One of the first books to sell over a million copies in the UK when it was released in paperback, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning has since become a key literary reference of postwar British culture and society, as well as a classic British New Wave film.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.
Arthur Seaton, a ladies’ man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight of stairs, pass out, and wake up again only to vomit on a middle-aged couple. Luckily Arthur’s lover, Brenda—a married woman with two kids—lets Arthur escape to her bed. Such are Saturdays in this bachelor’s life. When Arthur is not romancing Brenda, evading her husband, or drinking himself silly, he is turning up his nose at authority, disparaging the army, and trying to avoid paying too much income tax. Moreover, Arthur’s rapscallion ways soon lead him into the bed of Brenda’s younger sister—who is also married.
But no matter how much fun there is to be had, every Saturday night has its Sunday morning, replete with hangovers and consequences: A local bigmouth starts gossiping about Arthur’s affairs, Brenda gets pregnant, the husbands find out what’s been going on, and Arthur suffers a terrible beating. Perhaps the time has come for this playboy to settle down and marry that third woman he has been seeing on the side . . .
One of the first books to sell over a million copies in the UK when it was released in paperback, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning has since become a key literary reference of postwar British culture and society, as well as a classic British New Wave film.
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alan Sillitoe including rare images from the author’s estate.
Advance Praise
“Brilliant!” —The New Yorker
“Sillitoe’s writing, with its sharp tang of cold mornings and warm pubs, has a cumulative lyricism which makes you feel Arthur’s pangs as achingly as he does. This was the book that made ‘working class’ pursuits beautiful. It’s also a powerful story of political awakening.” —The Guardian
“The 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.” —The Daily Telegraph
“Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is Alan Sillitoe’s most famous depiction of working class life, portraying multi-layered characters constrained by the conventions of capitalism. The characters are never simple. . . . It is a vivid portrayal of the anger and frustration felt by many working class young people and will be appreciated by anyone who yearns for their weekend on a grim Monday morning.” —Socialist Review
“Sillitoe perfectly captures the post-war atmosphere amongst the working classes. Undoubtedly, the novel will endure as an invaluable social commentary of British life in the 1950s.” —Bibliofreak.net
“His people are alive, lusty, and vigorous.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Very outspoken and vivid.” —TheSunday Times
“A refreshing originality.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“Sillitoe has written a stunner. . . . Sillitoe has worked from life, from the people he knew.” —Sunday Express
“Sillitoe’s writing, with its sharp tang of cold mornings and warm pubs, has a cumulative lyricism which makes you feel Arthur’s pangs as achingly as he does. This was the book that made ‘working class’ pursuits beautiful. It’s also a powerful story of political awakening.” —The Guardian
“The 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.” —The Daily Telegraph
“Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is Alan Sillitoe’s most famous depiction of working class life, portraying multi-layered characters constrained by the conventions of capitalism. The characters are never simple. . . . It is a vivid portrayal of the anger and frustration felt by many working class young people and will be appreciated by anyone who yearns for their weekend on a grim Monday morning.” —Socialist Review
“Sillitoe perfectly captures the post-war atmosphere amongst the working classes. Undoubtedly, the novel will endure as an invaluable social commentary of British life in the 1950s.” —Bibliofreak.net
“His people are alive, lusty, and vigorous.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Very outspoken and vivid.” —TheSunday Times
“A refreshing originality.” —The Times Literary Supplement
“Sillitoe has written a stunner. . . . Sillitoe has worked from life, from the people he knew.” —Sunday Express
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