Alan Sillitoe
Birth date: March 04, 1928
Died: April 25, 2010
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Michael Cullen is a scoundrel and knows it. As he tells his story, he doesn't attempt to protect his self-image by portraying himself as a wholesome victim of circumstance. He simply does whatever he needs to do when he needs to do it, and is not shy at admitting defeat to us his readers. Yet despit...
Readers who are familiar with literature of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have probably heard about the Grand Tour, a kind of educational right of passage for the young and wealthy. Some readers could probably even name the titles of some of the guidebooks these travelers ...
Well, what a ride! Alan Sillitoe’s posthumous modern picaresque is quite the adventure. It’s frank and unapologetic, full of chaos, craziness and a devoted willingness to flout convention against the reader’s moral sensibilities. A reader can readily trace character similarities from Sillitoe’s e...
See my full review and more on my blog Mystereity Book ReviewsI requested this book from Netgalley because I was intrigued about tourism in the nineteenth and early 20th century. And I wasn't disappointed, this well researched book details several of the popular travel guides of that period and high...
After reading The Adventures of Roderick Random, I had vowed never again to read a picaresque novel. But, it didn't take long for me to break that vow. It seems that Alan Sillitoe wrote a trilogy of picaresque novels about the life and adventures of Michael Cullen, working-class bastard from Notting...
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