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Alan Sillitoe


Born
in Nottingham, The United Kingdom
March 04, 1928

Died
April 25, 2010

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories


Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it).
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Average rating: 3.78 · 14,235 ratings · 1,212 reviews · 142 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Loneliness of the Long-...
3.78 avg rating — 7,064 ratings — published 1959 — 75 editions
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Saturday Night and Sunday M...
3.80 avg rating — 5,307 ratings — published 1958 — 96 editions
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A Start in Life
3.74 avg rating — 148 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions
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The Ragman's Daughter
3.71 avg rating — 147 ratings — published 1963 — 14 editions
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Birthday
3.75 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions
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New and Collected Stories
4.06 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions
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Travels in Nihilon
3.54 avg rating — 57 ratings — 9 editions
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Key to the Door (Seaton, #2)
4.11 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1961 — 22 editions
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The Death of William Poster...
3.64 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1965 — 18 editions
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Life Without Armour
3.89 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1995 — 7 editions
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“I'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think I am or say I am, that's what I'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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“All I'm out for is a good time - all the rest is propaganda.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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“Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.”
― Alan Sillitoe, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
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