The Michael Cullen Novels: A Start in Life, Life Goes On, and Moggerhanger (The Michael Cullen Novels #1)

By: Alan Sillitoe

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Synopsis: Three uproarious comic novels from the iconic author of such classics as The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner and Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Alan Sillitoe has been hailed as &“the most quietly eloquent of his cohort of postwar British novelists&” (Jonathan Lethem). Here are three of Sillitoe&’s finest and funniest, chronicling the adventures of the &“happy bastard&” Michael Cullen. A Start in Life: The saga begins as Michael Cullen says goodbye to his home in Nottingham and hits the road for London. There he will make his fortune—or die trying. Life Goes On: The legend of Britain&’s most unlikely hero continues. After a series of outlandish criminal adventures, Cullen is a bastard no more. But he is still a rake with a refreshing lack of scruples. With the open road in front of him, the police behind him, and randy waitresses at every lay-by, Cullen is up to his old tricks once again. Moggerhanger: This madcap tale finds Cullen hired by his ex-boss, racketeer Claude Moggerhanger, to do a little &“job.&” But that&’s just the beginning of a wild adventure featuring crazed poets; endless women; rat catchers; Labrador retrievers; and his old friend, former mercenary soldier Bill Straw. Rolling Stone called Alan Sillitoe &“the master of British verbal architecture.&” These three novels also reveal him as a master of the picaresque, one of the truly unmistakable and original voices in modern fiction.