COLLECTED STORIES SILLITOE by Alan Sillitoe

COLLECTED STORIES SILLITOE by Alan Sillitoe

Alan Sillitoe is without doubt one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century, renowned for the themes of class and authority that run throughout his fiction. This impressive collection contains his greatest short stories, including his early classic, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. This volume, which includes previsouly unpublished stories, demonstrates the potency and timelessness of Sillitoe's work. He has been widely critically acclaimed:

- 'There are few writers who can rival Sillitoe when it comes to the business of noticing things' Literary Review - 'Every story (and there is not one dud) has the exhilaration of revolutionary writing.' Sunday Times - 'Sillitoe has written a stunner... miles nearer the real thing than D H Lawrence's mystic, brooding workingmen ever came... Sillitoe has worked from life, from the people he knew.' Sunday Express

Alan Sillitoe left school at fourteen to work in various factories until becoming an air traffic control assistant. He started writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. In 1959 his novel The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner won the Hawthornden Prize for literature and it was later made into a film, along with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. He has written nearly 50 works of fiction (his most recent novel was Birthday, the bestselling sequel to Saturday Night), an autobiography and poetry.

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ISBN 13	9781861056351
ISBN 10	1861056354
Title	COLLECTED STORIES SILLITOE
Author	Alan Sillitoe
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2003-09-11
Number of pages	640
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