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...
The titular story of this collection is again most readily associated with the 1962 film of the same name starring Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave and James Bolam. Unlike Sillitoe’s novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, this story more blatantly encompasses the ideas surrounding the Angry Young ...
Modern readers may probably readily associate Alan Sillitoe’s 1958 novel with the 1960 film starring Albert Finney. Interestingly, both novel and film are notable contributions to British literature and film. Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is categorized as being part of the Angry Young Men movem...
For some reason, I got conned into a NetGalley subscription (membership?). Well, not really "conned" actually, one of my friends mentioned it and I checked it out and thought, "why not?" So, in some instances, apparently, they'll give me an advance copy of a book in return for my promising to review...
Should have been 100 pages shorter. I really wanted to find out what happened but did not enjoy reading all of this book all the time. Ending proved worth it, but I'm not dying for a reread.
An outstanding collection, inspiring me to read more of the work of many of the authors featured:Nadine Gordimer - The Ultimate SafariA tale of asylum-seeking in Mozambique from the point of view of a young child, whose unworldliness enables Gordimer to draw a painful contrast between the lives of A...
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