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19 de abr. de 2016 · Books. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Alan Sillitoe. Harper Perennial, 2006 - Fiction - 240 pages. "Working all week at the lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare at the weekends. A hard-drinking, hard-working rebel, he knows exactly what he wants, and how to get it. Before long his dalliances with a couple of married women make ...
Come Saturday night, he's off to the pub for a loud and rowdy beer session. With him is Brenda, his girlfriend of the moment. Married to a fellow worker, she is nonetheless captivated by his rugged good looks and his devil-may-care attitude. Soon a new love interest Doreen enters and a week later, Brenda announces she's pregnant.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) is the 'new wave' film which has most preserved its reputation with modern critics. Added to critical support at the time and its massive - and unexpected - box office success, it has some claim to be the most significant of the films of this period.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was preceded by film adaptations of Look Back in Anger (1958) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1959) and followed by movie versions of Stan Barstow's A Kind of Loving (1962), Sillitoe's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), and David Storey's This Sporting Life (1963), among many others.
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Paperback – 1 Oct. 2008. This cult classic of working class life in post-war Nottingham follows the exploits of rebellious factory worker Arthur Seaton and is introduced by Richard Bradford. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in the evenings.
Based on Alan Sillitoe’s largely autobiographical novel, and with powerful central performances, crackling dialogue and a superb jazz score by Johnny Dankwor...
Brief Synopsis. Set in the industrial city of Nottingham in the late 1950s, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" revolves around the life of Arthur Seaton, a charismatic but disillusioned young man who works in a factory. The story takes place over the course of a week, portraying the stark contrast between Arthur's carefree and rebellious ...
