A rousing, uproarious novel about the life, loves and misadventures of a working-class rogue.
At twenty-two, Arthur Seaton is a hard-drinking bicycle factory lathe operator. Sharp, rowdy, and attractive, he is a lover of life in the raw, and his enormous vitality comes pouring through at a family party, at the county fair, and in several pubs he haunts on Saturday nights, where more often than not he leaves with a woman on his arm. Before long, however, his davil-may-care existence gets him into some serious trouble, and Arthur´s life takes a turn that not even he could have imagined.