Moreover, Arthur's rapscallion ways soon lead him into the bed of Brenda's younger sister-who is also married. When Arthur is not romancing Brenda, evading her husband, or drinking himself silly, he is turning up his nose at authority, disparaging the army, and trying to avoid paying too much income tax. Such are Saturdays in this bachelor's life. Luckily Arthur's lover, Brenda-a married woman with two kids-lets Arthur escape to her bed. Thoroughly smashed, he proceeds to tumble down an entire flight of stairs, pass out, and wake up again only to vomit on a middle-aged couple. and the morning after Arthur Seaton, a ladies' man and factory-worker extraordinaire, has just downed seven gins and eleven pints at his local pub. Alan Sillitoe's bestselling debut novel about debauchery, infidelity.
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