Monday, April 26, 2010

British writer Alan Sillitoe...

...died at the age of 82. His obituary says:

...[he] drew attention to the seething alienation of the postwar working class in England...

...[he] grew up desperately poor...and...spent much of it plumbing the privations of his childhood for material.

...critics group[ed] him with the so-called angry young men...

It doesn't say, but if his name was pronounced "Silly-toe," it's hard to think of him as angry, isn't it?

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