![]() We first meet Arthur Seaton blind-drunk (Blindo), belligerent and falling down the pub stairs in the opening scene of the book – all vivid and shocking. Sillitoe said this was akin to being advised by a clairvoyant on the true nature of his existence, and refused any changes. Other publishers had insisted Sillitoe rewrite sections to better reflect the reality of working-class life. Interestingly, five mainstream publishers refused the book before WH Allen published it in 1958. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (SNSM) is set in Nottingham and draws on Sillitoe’s own experience of working-class life and culture. ![]() ![]() He left school at 14 to work in factories until he joined the RAF in 1945. ![]() ![]() Book review by Alice C: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was: ‘That rarest of all finds: a genuine, no-punches-pulled unromanticised working-class novel which makes Room at the Top look like a vicar’s tea party’, according to a review in the Daily Telegraph.īorn in a council house in Nottingham in 1928, his father illiterate and frequently unemployed, Alan Sillitoe’s upbringing was marked by poverty and domestic violence. ![]()
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