As much a rock and roll writer as Salinger, Alan Sillitoe was the great English author behind such “angry young men” masterpieces (and great movies I might add) as “The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner” and “Saturday Night And Sunday Morning” from the late fifties, early sixities.
Reflections of the death of the socialist paradise as promised by the Labour party in post-WWII , post-Super Power UK, the “angry young man” lead directly to Swingin’ London and world domination of another type…