All Day Saturday
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A quietly observed work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, All Day Saturday chronicles a single day in the life of a group of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected and revealing ways. Colin MacInnes brings his signature sharp social eye to bear on the textures of everyday English life, illustrating the tensions of class, identity, and human connection with understated precision. The novel unfolds at a measured, contemplative pace, presenting its cast of ordinary people with both compassion and unsentimental clarity. MacInnes, best known for his London Trilogy, demonstrates here the same acute sensitivity to the rhythms of working-class and bohemian life that defined his most celebrated work. The result is a compact, resonant portrait of a world caught between tradition and change, rendered in prose that is both economical and quietly powerful.
Author: Colin Macinnes
Format: Paperback
Published: 1985, The Hogarth Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A quietly observed work of mid-twentieth-century British fiction, All Day Saturday chronicles a single day in the life of a group of characters whose lives intersect in unexpected and revealing ways. Colin MacInnes brings his signature sharp social eye to bear on the textures of everyday English life, illustrating the tensions of class, identity, and human connection with understated precision. The novel unfolds at a measured, contemplative pace, presenting its cast of ordinary people with both compassion and unsentimental clarity. MacInnes, best known for his London Trilogy, demonstrates here the same acute sensitivity to the rhythms of working-class and bohemian life that defined his most celebrated work. The result is a compact, resonant portrait of a world caught between tradition and change, rendered in prose that is both economical and quietly powerful.