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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