Alan Sillitoe war ein englischer Schriftsteller, dessen Werk oft eine rohe, ungeschönte Darstellung des Lebens der Arbeiterklasse einfing. Seine Erzählungen erforschten die tief sitzenden Frustrationen und Bestrebungen gewöhnlicher Menschen, die gesellschaftliche Zwänge meisterten. Sillitoes Prosa zeichnete sich durch ihre Direktheit und scharfe psychologische Einsicht aus und bot denen eine Stimme, die oft übersehen wurden. Er bleibt eine bedeutende Figur für seine authentische Darstellung der Widerstandsfähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes und seiner Sinnsuche.
Sillitoes berühmteste Geschichten aus der Welt derer, denen nichts in den Schoß fällt, über ihre Gefährdung, ihre verletzten Gefühle, aber auch ihre Lebenslust. Ein Nachahmer ( Mimikry ) ist einer, dessen Leben nur dann Realität annimmt, wenn er andere Leute imitiert. In Die Lumpensammlerstochter führt ein Kleptomane seine Freundin in die Kunst des Stehlens ein. Doch Doris überspannt den Bogen."
A wonderful historical novel from one of our best loved and most prolific writersAs a young man Ernest Burton was a bold and reckless journeyman blacksmith, seducing all young girls he comes across. We watch him grow to become a master Blacksmith, and a tyrannical father of eight who refuses even to try to remain faithful to the woman he married and who reigns over his young family with an iron fist, instilling in his sons and daughters a mixture of fear and hatred of him. Burton is an extraordinary fictional creation a bully who shows no mercy in his relentless terrorism of his sons, he can also be effortlessly charming, with a magnetic attraction that effects all he meets.Written in the sparse, plain language that Sillitoe has made his own, A Man of His Time is a mesmerising portrait of an extraordinary individual, aware that he is, in many ways, the last of a dying breed. It's a rich, absorbing, wonderfully readable novel that covers decades and crosses generations, depicting with singular brilliance an England poised on the brink of change.
Birthday is the long-awaited sequel to Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Four decades on from the novel which was at the forefront of the new wave of British Literature, we re-discover the Seaton brothers: older, cetainly; wiser - possibly not. Arthur and Brian Seaton, one with an ailing wife, one with an emotional knapsack of failure and success, are on their way to Jenny's 70th birthday party. Jenny and Brian had years ago experimented with sex - semi-clothed, stealthy, with the bonus of fear. Arthur, of course, had cut a winning swathe through the married and unmarried women of Nottinghamshire. Life has changed. Alan Sillitoe is undoubtedly one of the greatest English writers of our time, and, indeed, one of the most influential.
Thirty-eight stories on life among the English working classes. They include The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, on a rebellious youth in a reformatory, and Mr. Raynor the School Teacher, on a teacher who is a Peeping Tom
Den engelske forfatter Alan Sillitoe f. 1928 fortæller om sin barndom og tidligste ungdom
A snowbound hotel shelters fourteen oddly assorted people - from psychopaths to lovers.
