/ Includes PS Section Reissue of a groundbreaking work of fiction from one of our best loved authors. / Alan Sillitoe is one of the greatest and most loved English writers of his generation. / This new edition will be given a stunning new jacket treatment and published as part of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series. / This classic work was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1960. / Alan Sillitoe's profile shows no sign of diminishing. In 2003 the Barbican ran a retrospective of the films of his classic novels, which were recently released on DVD.
Alan Sillitoe left school at 14 to work in various factories until becoming an air traffic control assistant with the Ministry Aircraft Production in 1945. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. In 1958, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was published, and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, which won the Hawthornden Prize for literature, came out the following year. Both these books were made into films.
'I have read nothing to compare with it.' Penelope Mortimer 'Sillitoe writes with tremendous energy, and his stories simply tear along.' Daily Telegraph 'All the imaginative sympathy in the world can't fake this kind of thing. It must have been lived in, seen, touched, smelled: and we are lucky to have a writer who has come out of it knowing the truth, and having the skill to turn that truth into art.' New Statesman 'Graphic, tough, outspoken, informal.' The Times 'A beautiful piece of work, confirming Sillitoe as a writer of unusual spirit and great promise.' Guardian 'A major writer.' Malcolm Bradbury
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