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    Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label...
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  • "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a short story by Alan Sillitoe, published in 1959 as part of a short story collection of the same title...
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  • English Stage Company at the Royal Court. The screenplay was written by Alan Sillitoe, based on his 1959 short story of the same title, and concerns a rebellious...
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  • Richardson. It is an adaptation of the 1958 novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe, with Sillitoe himself writing the screenplay. The plot concerns a young teddy...
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  • Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (category Novels by Alan Sillitoe)
    the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award. It was adapted by Sillitoe into the 1960 film of the same name...
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  • Sillitoe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Acton Sillitoe (1840–1894), British Anglican bishop Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), British...
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  • "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" is a 1959 short story by Alan Sillitoe. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner may also refer to: The Loneliness...
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  • Osborne and Kingsley Amis; other popular figures included John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, and John Wain. The phrase was originally coined by the Royal Court...
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    Nottingham's literary heritage, with Lord Byron, D. H. Lawrence and Alan Sillitoe having links to the city, as well as a contemporary literary community...
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  • 2010 – Dorothy Provine, American actress and singer (b. 1935) 2010 – Alan Sillitoe, English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet (b. 1928)...
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  • Long-Distance Runner is a short story collection by English author Alan Sillitoe. "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner": A teenager from Nottingham...
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  • Key to the Door (category Novels by Alan Sillitoe)
    Key to the Door is a novel by English author Alan Sillitoe, first published in 1961. Key to the Door is the story of a young man growing up in the grim...
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  • The Open Door is a 1989 novel by Alan Sillitoe. It is the third and final part of the Seaton family trilogy which commenced with Saturday Night and Sunday...
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  • The General is a 1960 novel by the British writer Alan Sillitoe. Unlike his previous realist works, the novel relies heavily on abstract symbolism. During...
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  • Kathryn Hays and Leslie Nielsen. It is based on the novel The General by Alan Sillitoe. In the United States the film was released as a double feature with...
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  • the play, despite the fact that "blinkers still obscure his vision". Alan Sillitoe, author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the...
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    Dante Alighieri. ISBN 87-7378-244-0 The novel The Lost Flying Boat by Alan Sillitoe is situated around Kerguelen, though the islands' geography are not...
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    Kitchen sink realism was used in the novels of Stan Barstow, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe and others. The influence of kitchen sink realism has continued in the...
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  • Green (with Marius Hentea) 9. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (with James Walker) 1. Goldfinger by Ian Fleming (with Kim Sherwood)...
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  • Dunn 1967 Class & Society British Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Alan Sillitoe 1958 Class & Society British The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne Brian...
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  • numerous other publications. Fainlight was married to the British writer Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) and has a son, David, who is a photographer for The Guardian...
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  • British indie rock singer-songwriter Jake Bugg. It shares its name with Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, a book about working-class life...
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  • The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe (England) A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney (England) Things Fall...
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  • writers known as the "Angry young men," which included the novelists Alan Sillitoe and Kingsley Amis, who came from the working class and who wrote about...
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  • A Start in Life is a 1970 picaresque novel by the British writer Alan Sillitoe. It was followed by a sequel Life Goes On in 1985. Michael Cullen abandons...
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  • The Death of William Posters (category Novels by Alan Sillitoe)
    The Death of William Posters is a 1965 novel by the British writer Alan Sillitoe. It is the first in a trilogy featuring the Nottingham factory worker...
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    Eyre Massey Shaw, first Chief Officer of the Metropolitan Fire Brigade Alan Sillitoe, English postmodern novelist, poet, and playwright James Smetham, Pre-Raphaelite...
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  • period when northern writers such as Stan Barstow, John Braine and Alan Sillitoe were also coming to the fore. He had one man exhibitions in Manchester...
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  • Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), based on the novel by Alan Sillitoe, also were produced there. Many of Richardson's films, such as A Taste...
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    and Sunday Morning (1960), was based on the social-realism novel by Alan Sillitoe, and used many of the same techniques as his earlier documentaries....
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