The Life of a Long-Distance Writer: The Biography of Alan Sillitoe - Rilegato

Bradford, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0720613175 ISBN 13: 9780720613179

Casa editrice: Peter Owen Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

Richard Bradford, Professor of English at the University of Ulster, has already written biographies of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis, in each case however, when the subject was safely dead. He is now working on a biography surely a bit premature? of Martin Amis, but meanwhile here he is with a long, detailed, thorough, and agreeably sympathetic life of Alan Sillitoe. --The Scotsman

The Life of a Long-Distance Writer shows in penetrating detail, the two worlds of Sillitoe s fiction sometimes distinct, occasionally contending, at times seamlessly conjoined are replicated in his own career. In forging an aesthetic in which they could be brought together, he has also solved a problem with which practically every working-class writer sent south to storm the citadels of literary London has had to contend: how to stay close enough to the things that are worth writing about, while dealing with the consequences of your deracination. --Times Literary Supplement

Richard Bradford, professor of English at the University of Ulster, is making a nice corner in Fifties writers, having already written lives of Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis. Currently - leaping a generation - he is writing the authorised biography of Martin Amis. Bradford is a skilful analyst. He makes penetrating inquiries. At his shoulder is Sillitoe, giving him, evidently, candid answers to his questions and the book is soaringly intelligent and a most enjoyable read --Daily Telegraph

L'autore:

Richard Bradford is a professor of English at the University of Ulster. He previously has taught in the universities of Oxford, Wales, and in Trinity College, Dublin. He has written a dozen books on a variety of subjects, including two critical monographs of Kingsley Amis.

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• Editore: Peter Owen Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0720613175
• ISBN 13: 9780720613179
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 390