Life Without Armour by Alan Sillitoe
This is an account of Alan Sillitoe's life. It ranges from his early years of council-house penury, through evacuation, life in the army and TB, to his rebirth as an angry young man. The book is published to coincide with his "Collected Stories".Alan Sillitoe was born in 1928 and left school at 14 to work in various factories. He began writing after four years in the RAF, and lived for six years in France and Spain. His first stories were printed in the ‘Nottingham Weekly Guardian’. 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780002555708 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002555700 |
| Title | Life Without Armour |
| Author | Alan Sillitoe |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-07-10 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |