saturday night sunday morning alan sillitoe

Soon Arthur hears the news that Jack has been switched to nights, which pleases Arthur as he can now spend more time with Jack's wife. He earns a good wage of 14 pounds a week, and Robboe, his superior, fears he may get in trouble for letting Arthur earn so much. Arthur keeps his mind occupied during the mundane and repetitive work through a mental collage of imagined fantasies, and memories of the past. Arthur enjoys breakfast with Brenda before her husband Jack gets home from a weekend at the races.Īrthur works at a lathe at a bicycle factory with his friend Jack. Brenda takes him home with her and they spend the night together. Challenged to a drinking contest, Arthur defeats 'Loudmouth' before falling down the stairs drunk. Arthur Seaton is 22 years old, and enjoying a night out with Brenda, the wife of a colleague at work. Saturday Night begins in a working man's club in Nottingham.

The novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is split into two unequal parts: the bulk of the book, Saturday Night, and the much smaller second part, Sunday Morning. Sillitoe later wrote three further parts to the Seatons' story, Key to the Door (1961), The Open Door (1989) and Birthday (2001). It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney, directed by Karel Reisz, and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse, with Ian McKellen playing one of his first leading roles. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award.

Saturday night sunday morning alan sillitoe