ALAN SILLITOE - TYPESCRIPT SIGNED - HFSID 179047
Price: $160.00
ALAN SILLITOE
First six chapters from author Alan Sillitoe's 1976 novel The
Widower's Son, signed in black ink. Sillitoe, who wrote about the alienation
of working-class England, is best known for his novel Saturday Night and
Sunday Morning and short story The Loneliness of the Long Distance
Runner.
Typescript signed "Alan Sillitoe". 1 page, 8½x11. Headed:
"THE WIDOWER'S SON".Sillitoe's novel The Widower's Son was
published in 1976. English author Sillitoe (1928-2010) published his
celebrated first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, in 1958 and
his other most famous work, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
(title piece in a short story collection) the next year. Both were made into
films. His 2001 novel Birthday updated the lives of the character's from
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Sillitoe also wrote poems, essays,
children's books and plays for stage, screen and TV, as well as short stories
and novels; his latest novel, Gadfly in Russia, was published in 2007.
Sillitoe, who dropped out of school at age 14, was awarded several honorary
doctorates during his life. Lightly toned and creased, otherwise in fine
condition.
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