by Alan Sillitoe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780586065679
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«The Widower's Son» is Alan Sillitoe's novel of love and war, published by HarperCollins Publishers in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Charlie Scorton, son of a soldier, seeks his place inside and outside the army. After his best friend dies in the mine, he enlists; his father disowns him. After twenty-four years across the empire, he returns. A widower, he raises his son William to be a gunner; William distinguishes himself at Dunkirk and must answer the question his father did not.
The novel was published in 1986; Alan Sillitoe is also the author of 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'.
For readers of twentieth-century British fiction interested in family relationships and military life.
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
