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29 de abr. de 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, writer, died on April 25th, aged 82. ENGLISH working men had been heard from before. Piers Plowman, chancing one summer day upon a field of folk; John Clare's shepherd, observing ...
30 de abr. de 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, the novelist and poet whose death at the age of 82 was announced on Sunday, was one of the key cultural figures in Britain’s startling postwar social transformation. His most ...
26 de abr. de 2010 · Alan Sillitoe was born in Nottingham, England, on March 4, 1928. His father was a laborer, often unemployed, and frequently violent. The family often moved to avoid the rent collector.
1 de mar. de 2008 · Rereading: In the 1950s, Alan Sillitoe shattered the sentimental portrayal of working-class life in literature and was responsible for a new realism in British fiction. DJ Taylor salutes the ...
12 de jul. de 2016 · Life Without Armour. : Alan Sillitoe. Open Road Media, Jul 12, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 246 pages. A candid and surprising memoir of the early life of one of England’s most acclaimed and enduring post-WWII writers. Born in 1928 into a poverty-stricken family in working-class Nottingham, bestselling British novelist Alan Sillitoe’s ...
Alan Sillitoe’s ‘Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ seemed like a good place to start, and it turned out to be a welcome choice. There is both a simplicity and richness to it, and it transported me back to the world I grew up in, right down to the aspidistra in the living room. 4 likes.
Alan Sillitoe Published in 1960 AS soon as I got to Borstal they made me a long-distance cross-country runner. I suppose they thought I was just the build for it because I was long and skinny for my age (and still am) and in any case I didn't mind it much, to tell you the truth, because running had al-
