The Life of a Long Distance Writer
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The Life of a Long Distance Writer by Richard Bradford
Written with the close cooperation of Alan Sillitoe himself, The Life of a Long Distance Writer is not only the definitive work on the legendary writer in his 80th birthday year, it also promises to be perhaps the most controversial literary biography of the last decade. Alan Sillitoe has allowed Richard Bradford unrestriced access to his papers and personal archive, enabling Bradford to build the first comprehensive portrait of this brilliant and often contradictory figure. Within it, Bradford reveals--among other things--that Sillitoe, though proud of his background and Nottingham hometown, rejects the working-class writer tag that has been thrust on him, loathes political correctness in all its forms, and has retained for a long time a somewhat unfashionable Zionism, strongly sympathetic to those who want to protect the Jewish homeland. As well as this, Bradford delves into Silltoe's literary and artistic liasions across mediums, perhaps most notably a long and close friendship with Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
Bradford, Richard: - Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon. He has published over thirty acclaimed books, including a biography of Philip Larkin, which was an Independent Book of the Year; the authorised biography of Alan Sillitoe; a life of Kingsley Amis; and a biography of Kingsley's son, Martin. He has written for the Spectator and the Sunday Times and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series Writers in their Own Words. His The Importance of Elsewhere, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme and, most recently, his biography Orwell was given five stars as an 'excellent new biography' by The Telegraph.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780720613179 |
| ISBN 10 | 0720613175 |
| Title | The Life of a Long Distance Writer |
| Author | Richard Bradford |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Peter Owen Publishers |
| Year published | 2008-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 510 |
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