โ Scribed by Alan Sillitoe
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
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Paperback, 256 pages
Published 1958
Fourth Estate (2014)
Burgess 99 Novels Best (1939-1983)
Callil-Toibin 200 Best Novels (1950-1999)
Alan Sillitoeโs bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity . . . and the morning after
Arthur Seaton, a ladiesโ man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight of stairs, pass out, and wake up again only to vomit on a middle-aged couple. Luckily Arthurโs lover, Brendaโa married woman with two kidsโlets Arthur escape to her bed. Such are Saturdays in this bachelorโs life. When Arthur is not romancing Brenda, evading her husband, or drinking himself silly, he is turning up his nose at authority, disparaging the army, and trying to avoid paying too much income tax. Moreover, Arthurโs rapscallion ways soon lead him into the bed of Brendaโs younger sisterโwho is also married.
But no matter how much fun there is to be had, every Saturday night has its Sunday morning, replete with hangovers and consequences: A local bigmouth starts gossiping about Arthurโs affairs, Brenda gets pregnant, the husbands find out whatโs been going on, and Arthur suffers a terrible beating. Perhaps the time has come for this playboy to settle down and marry that third woman he has been seeing on the side . . .
One of the first books to sell over a million copies in the UK when it was released in paperback, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning has since become a key literary reference of postwar British culture and society, as well as a classic British New Wave film.
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