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Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) [1] [2] was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Key to the Door is the story of a young man growing up in the grim backstreets of Nottingham, England in the 1940s. He attempts to find a way of shaking off the stifling working class expectations that are thrust upon him from all sectors of society. [2]
The Open Door is a 1989 novel by Alan Sillitoe. It is the third and final part of the Seaton family trilogy which commenced with Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and then Key to the Door (1961).
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe [1] and won the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award.. It was adapted by Sillitoe into the 1960 film of the same name starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first leading roles.
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Apart from Osborne, these included Harold Pinter, Braine, Arnold Wesker, and Alan Sillitoe. [10] Some of these (e.g., Pinter) were left-wing and some (e.g., Braine) later became right-wing. William Cooper , the early-model Angry Young Man, though Cambridge -educated, was a "provincial" writer in his frankness and material and is included in ...
Alan Sillitoe recalls his childhood in Nottingham when he was in a gang led by Frankie Buller, a man in his early twenties with a mental age much lower. They made frequent raids into a nearby housing estate to battle a rival gang. The advent of World War II put a stop to Frankie's exploits. [2] "The Rats":
"The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same title. [1] The work focuses on Smith, a poor Nottingham teenager from a dismal home in a working class area, who has bleak prospects in life and few interests beyond petty crime.