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Alan Sillitoe is a well known name in the 20th century literary arena. A British writer, Sillitoe was born on 4th March, 1928 in Nottingham, in a working class family. Right from childhood, he was exposed to poverty, troubles and turmoil that were offered by a merciless society that laid great emphasis on class. The troubled childhood gave Sillitoe an extraordinary advantage to look at life in all its gross manifestations. His pen knew no rest as he produced more than 20 novels, a trilogy, poems, screen plays, a novella, short stories, essays, plays, travelogues, compilations and an autobiography till he died in 2010. Sillitoe declared his arrival on the literary scene in style with his first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in 1958 and immediately in the next year that followed, he hit the nail on its head with his extraordinary story "The Loneliness of a Long Distance Runner". Sillitoe became an instant success and a name to reckon with. Many awards and accolades came his way and he won widespread appreciation for his creativity, his angry young man image, the portrayal of Nottingham and the portrayal of life in its gross manifestations during a career spanning more than six decades. Sillitoe was forced out of school due to poverty and incessant misery at home. He donned the role of a factory worker as a 14 year old boy and his life's account is delineated in his autobiography Life Without Armour, published in 1995. Sillitoe never hesitates to subtly mix his autobiographical quintessence in his protagonists and a keen reader can never miss to reconstruct the life of Sillitoe through a reading of his novels. Snowstop is a highly philosophical novel that draws itself away from the regular life of Nottingham and working class life that other novels try to portray. It is part of the class of novels that clearly demarcate themselves as novels that indicate the shift in the priorities of Sillitoe. His protagonist, for a change is capable of and willing to purge himself of the evils that he is capable of. Snowstop is among the class of novels, where a different Sillitoe is at work to convey the quintessential self in man.