![]() Part 2: Sunday Night has Arthur realising at 24yo that carefree days are over, he's working on marrying a woman a few years younger than himself and coming to terms with routines of life when settling down. Most of the action takes place on Saturday nights when he goes pubbing, gets blindingly drunk, has affairs with married women, gets beat up by their husbands and gets into general mischief in the "yard" where he lives being a prankster and having a temper for revenge. He works in a bicycle factory is good at his job and gets paid well, spending his money on classy clothes. The majority of the book contains Part 1 Saturday Night and tells of Arthur's life as a man about the neighbourhood. ![]() Obviously somewhat biographical this short novel takes a couple of years in the life of young 21yo Arthur Seaton. This is sort of the British equivalent of the depressing Irish novels. ![]()
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