as the author of two adroitly-timed works would be to diminish both his status and the art he brought to his craft over four decades. Among his further novels, collections of poetry, screenplays, essays, plays and children's books, Sillitoe developed his themes and understanding of humanity and began to internalise injustice, to reflect oppression on the workings of the human psyche. If his life's work forever explored the privations of his upbringing, in his maturity his singular characters were touched by the universal.from The Daily Telegraph: Alan Sillitoe
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