New and Collected Stories

by Alan Sillitoe

With the publication of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1958 and the subsequent arrival of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner a year later, Alan Sillitoe brought a poetic new voice to working-class England and quickly established himself as a standout in England’s embittered yet immensely talented “Angry Young Men” school of writers - which included Kingsley Amis and John Osborne.

New and Collected Stories brings together more than forty pieces of short fiction, encompassing Sillitoe’s entire career, and includes several previously unpublished stories. It is an essential and comprehensive collection from an often-overlooked gem in the canon of modern fiction and an abiding literary voice for working-class Britain.

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

624 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it).
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Reviews

[RYD]

Nobody did angry young man better than Alan Sillitoe, and I'd take "Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner" over J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" any day. This collection of Sillitoe's stories is really good and shows his development as a writer. I found a few too many middle-aged pieces about frustrated working-class marriages, but that would be my only quibble.

[Ryan]

His best work was on par with William Trevor. I wish more recognised it, and not just for that famous first collection.

[Carol Anne]

Love these stories - such sensitivity, such deep human understanding.

[Danika Brown]

(I actually just read 'Pit Strike', but there was no actually book to add on here for it)