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His first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, was published in 1958 and was followed by a collection of short stories, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, which won the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. With over fifty volumes to his name, Sillitoe was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997.
12 de jul. de 2016 · Over forty short stories spanning the career of England’s most acclaimed postwar writer—including the iconic “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner.”. This comprehensive collection of short fiction from bestselling British author Alan Sillitoe mixes aggression with humor, and common working-class men with extraordinary twists of fate.
21 de sept. de 2010 · Great modern European short stories by Angus, Douglas, 1909-; Angus, Sylvia, joint comp. Publication date 1967 Topics ... Gogol's wife / Tommaso Landolfi -- Autumn in the oak woods / Yuri Kazakov -- Isaac Starbuck / Alan Sillitoe -- First confession / Frank O'Connor -- Great wave / Mary Lavin Short stories by "Albert Camus, D. H ...
From my interview with Alan Sillitoe on December 16, 1981 at Writer's House at Mishkenot Sha'ananim in Jerusalem, Israel, where he and his wife, poet Ruth Fainlight, were staying for five weeks. All quotations from The Second Chance were taken from the following edition. The numbers in parentheses correspond to those in the text.
Alan Sillitoe's short story, "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," presents one of the most disturbingly effective parables of victorious defeat that has appeared in contemporary fiction. The gesture of the anti-hero who deliberately throws the All-England race, as Allen R. Penner's recent study notes, has inspired divergent ...
3 de feb. de 2022 · Alan Sillitoe (1928 – 2010) English novelist (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), short story writer (The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner), poet and essayist.On Saturday Afternoon, first published in the collection The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, in 1959. Available to read online here (search for the title, about two thirds of the way through the document)
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 ...
