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Sad news that one the truly great English writers has just died - Alan Sillitoe. A hero of mine, especially coming from just up the road, Nottingham, and one of the few writers, in my opinion, to stand near his earlier neighbour, D.H. Lawrence. Tough, uncompromising, unique, an anarchic presence in the over-ordered house of Brit literature - where there aren't many great writers these days, apart from Iain Sinclair and a couple of others. I re-read his William Posters Trilogy recently and marveled at the freshness and hope, passages of stunning writing. Forget Amis, McEwan and co... We shall not see his like...
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