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Alan Sillitoe

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British

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Alan Sillitoe (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, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, both of which were adapted into films.

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Gender

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The best books of all time by Alan Sillitoe

  1. 719 . Saturday Night and Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

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    Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award. It was adapted by Sillitoe into a 1960 film starring Albert Finney...

  2. 1606 . The Loneliness of the Long-distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe

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    In the title story, a boy is made into a distance runner when he arrives at reform school. As he remembers the botched robbery that placed him in custody, he begins to wonder just who he is running...

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