Down from the Hill (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alan Sillitoe
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The summers of 1945 and 1983
- Setting: Nottingham, England, and some dozen small towns in the surrounding West Midlands, such as Stafford, Lichfield, and Coventry
- Principal Characters: Paul Morton, Alice Sands, Gwen, Uncle Fred
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Self-discovery, Traveling or travelers, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Authors or writers, 1940’s, Writing, 1980’s, England or English people, Creative process, Small-town life, Bicycles or bicycling
- Locales: England
The Novel
The action in Down from the Hill centers on Paul Morton’s two journeys through the beautiful West Midlands, first on a bicycle in the summer of 1945 at the age of seventeen, and then by car in the summer of 1983. As a young factory worker in the Cadets, about to become an air traffic control assistant, Paul starts on his bicycle trip with one thought in mind: to see Alice Sands, the girl he met in Stafford on a trip the year before and with whom he has maintained a correspondence. The novel begins with Paul’s sexual awakening, but any real intimacy between Alice...
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