He's even good at his job, earning £14 per week on piece work, making machine components on a lathe. Contesting is what Arthur does best: he sleeps with the wives of other men, he shouts and fights like any barnyard rooster, he drinks to put other men under the table. We first meet Arthur Seaton (who describes himself thus: " I'm a bloody billygoat trying to screw the world, and no wonder I am, because it's trying to do the same to me." C 15) when he falls down a set of stairs in the pub, having won a drinking competition. Hugely authentic, a voice from the working-class with a distinct flavour of D H Lawrence, this debut novel was published in 1958 and was an immediate success.
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