Details About Books Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
| Title | : | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
| Author | : | Alan Sillitoe |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 1992 by Plume (first published 1958) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. European Literature. British Literature. Literature. Novels. Modern Classics. 20th Century |
Alan Sillitoe
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.83 | 3615 Users | 199 Reviews
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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.
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| Original Title: | Saturday Night and Sunday Morning |
| ISBN: | 0452269091 (ISBN13: 9780452269095) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Authors' Club Best First Novel Award (1958) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 3615 Users | 199 ReviewsArticle About Books Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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 weeks 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 theAlternatively: misogyny, the novel. No, okay, although the main character is a dick, this book read really quickly and I found myself quite enjoying it. Despite the portrayal and treatment of women, that is.
This book is a good chronicle of the despair of young working-class England after World War II, but it is also ultimately surprisingly optimistic. Here was one passages I highlighted as emblematic of the main character's bitterness:"What did they take up for? Bloody fools, but one of these days they'd be wrong. They think they've settled our hashes with their insurance cards and television sets, but I'll be one of them to turn round on 'em and let them see how wrong they are. When I'm on my
I think this book was originally written as two books: Saturday Night AND Sunday Morning.Sunday Morning was mind-blowingly fabulous. Saturday Night makes you appreciate the finally coherenet thoughts of the main character in Sunday Morning. Maybe there's a metaphor at work about being brought into the light of reason or being enlightened?Anyways, if you can struggle through the first 200 pages or so, the last 40 pages are incredibly rewarding.Psh...it only took me what...over 2 years to finish
First published in 1958 my edition is the 50th anniversary one. It is set in the years immediately following the second world war, in a working class community which has now largely disappeared. Its central character is Arthur, a 20 year old Lothario who works and plays hard. There's lots to dislike about him: he is a cheat, with a cuckoo's preference for the marital nests of others. But he is a real professional who seduces the reader along with the rest. He should get caught of course?... I
Wonderful illustration of northern working class life in the 1950s, as we follow the adventures of a young man who spends his days working in a factory and his free time drinking, living it up, or recovering. AS writes with dark humour in this gritty tale. It's worth looking beyond modern fiction to discover treasures like this.
Reckless, brash Arthur Seaton could see off any of today's binge-drinking chancers, it takes seven gins and eleven pints to floor him, but he still gets up for more. At twenty two he's the king of his little world, refusing to let anyone impose their laws on him. 'Don't let the bastards get you down' is his motto, and the 'bastards' are anyone who tries to stop him doing exactly what he wants. At some stage or other his life begins to spin out of control, he is on a helter-skelter that will
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