![]() To help ease his family's financial burden, Sillitoe left school at age fourteen to work in a bicycle plant, then escaped the tedium of factory work by joining the Royal Air Force four years later, in 1946. Nottingham, England, where unemployment was widespread prior to World War II. The son of a functionally illiterate man, Sillitoe was raised in Works in Biographical and Historical ContextĪ Hard-Knock Childhood in Nottingham Sillitoe's fiction is frequently based on his personal life. Sillitoe is best known for the novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) and the short story collection The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959). The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1959)īritish writer Alan Sillitoe is often classed as one of the “Angry Young Men” of 1950s England, a group of novelists and playwrights whose stark portrayals of working class people served as sharp social criticism. ![]()
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