Biography EssayAlan Sillitoe had no plans for becoming a writer; writing seemed a most unlikely, even "inconceivable" career for a factory worker raised in the industrial town of Nottingham, England. ...
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Alan Sillitoe had no plans for becoming a writer; writing seemed a most unlikely, even "inconceivable" career for a factory worker raised in the industrial town of Nottingham, England. Despite, or per...
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When Alan Sillitoe's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was published in 1958, critics grouped the author with John Wain, Kingsley Amis, and John Braine as angry young men. The label is not entirely ap...
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[This entry was updated by Jennifer Semple Siegel (York College of Pennsylvania) from her entry in DLB 139: British Short-Fiction Writers, 1945-1980, and from the entry by Catherine Smith in the Conci...
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Critical Essay by Lawrence R. Ries
Alan Sillitoe sees the violence of our present environment deriving from sociological conditions. His characters belong to the low classes and are in danger of losin...
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Critical Essay by Gilberto Perez
[In The Widower's Son] Sillitoe sets up a metaphor which serves him throughout to tie together his story. It is the metaphor of life as battle, a man up against...
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Critical Essay by Edith Milton
The Widower's Son is … a novel about two generations of one family, and much of its main narrative covers … the period just after the war, which see...
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Critical Essay by Brian Martin
The Midlands, Nottingham in particular, provide the background for many of the stories in The Second Chance. Authenticity of locality is created through idiom and colloq...
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Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe
