"Snow on the North Side of Lucifer is a series of related poems about Lucifer's attempt to overthrow God, of his defeat and fall, and of his journeying through the ages before a kind of reconciliation is possible."
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). For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sil...