''The Open Door'' is a 1989 novel by Alan Sillitoe. It is the third and final part of the Seaton family trilogy which commenced with '' Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'' (1958) and then ''

Key to the Door ''Key to the Door'' is a novel by English author Alan Sillitoe, first published in 1961. Synopsis ''Key to the Door'' is the story of a young man growing up in the grim backstreets of Nottingham, England in the 1940s. He attempts to find a way ...

'' (1961).Contemporary Literary Criticism: Excerpts from Criticism of the ...Roger Matuz - 1990 0810344319 - However, there are some less than subtle differences between this Brian and the Brian of Key to the Door. The Malayan communists, for example, have faded in his memory with remarkable rapidity. Is this Brian's or Sillitoe's own "retrospective falsification"? It hardly matters: The Open Door is so superior to Key to the Door that it would be worth destroying all trace of the latter. Indeed, Sillitoe may well have delivered himself of the autobiography of his immaturity in his account of Arthur ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Open Door 1989 British novels Novels by Alan Sillitoe Grafton (publisher) books Novels set in Nottingham