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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

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Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

By: Alan Sillitoe
Narrated by: Linus Roache
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About this listen

 Alan Sillitoe was an integral part of the Angry Young Men movement of the fifties that focused on its authentic depiction of real working class people. This book is true to their ideals in its raw sharp writing of the story of a young man framed by his brutal experience in the army and as a factory worker.

Fuelled by a bleak aggressive outlook on life the book centers around a boozy, philandering weekend which is graphically captured by Sillitoe's clever prose and Linus Roache's strong reading.

©2009 Copyright Group (P)2009 Copyright Group Classics

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I enjoyed the book in essence but it was spoilt by the lenghty jazz music between chapters, seems to go on forever. When i first started listening the music went on so long i thought i had the wrong download! Also i didnt think the narrator was very good at times running paragraphs into each other so it seemed the second paragraph was part of the first so to speak. Could be much better recording for a brilliant book.

saturday night sunday morning

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really enjoyed this and although this guy was a "bit of a bastard" I did have a soft spot for him at the end

felt like Alan Bennett play Excellent

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A pretty solid interpretation of life in a small northern working class town for a young bloke looking for some sort of excitement.

Up t’north

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Huge chunks of the novel have been clumsily removed to create this abridged version. With little pause given between key scenes, it left me wondering if I'd accidentally brushed my phone and sped forward to the next chapter. There are intermittent jazz interludes between the chapters that seem at odds with the story, and we're frankly irritating. This recording is saved by the sheer talent of Linus Roache whose voice lifts the dialect, skipping and dragging to the beat of the pros,If you want to get the full story read the book.

Heavily edited, unnecessary Jazz

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It was a very good reading of the classic novel. The Jazz interludes are a little intrusive, but Linus Roache truly captured the essence of the characters in his exceptional performance, of Sillitoe's timeless masterpiece.

Very enjoyable reading

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