The Man Who Wasn't There - by Richard Bradford (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and his life became the root from which his novels grew. At the age of 18 he was awarded a medal for bravery in the First World War; he honed his literary craft in 1920s Paris; his macho image grew with his love of big-game hunting, deep-sea fishing and bull-fighting and was cemented during the Spanish Civil War, when he survived the bombardment of Madrid. But by the 1940s, the darkness of his alcoholism and violent rages began to weigh heavily. Hemingway had become the patriarch of American literature but he was plagued by unrelenting demons and an insidious disenchantment with life. In this unflinching portrait, Anthony Burgess explores Hemingway's fatal contradictions: his arrogance and self-doubt, his machismo and vulnerability."--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A ground-breaking and intensely revealing examination of the life of the 20th century's most iconic writer. </b> <p/>Ernest Hemingway was an involuntary chameleon, who would shift seamlessly from a self-cultivated image of hero, aesthetic radical, and existential non-conformist to a figure made up at various points of selfishness, hypocrisy, self-delusion, narcissism and arbitrary vindictiveness.<br>Richard Bradford shows that Hemingway's work is by parts erratic and unique because it was tied into these unpredictable, bizarre features of his personality. Impressionism and subjectivity always play some part in the making of literary works. Some authors try to subdue them while others treat them as the essentials of creativity but they endure as a ubiquitous element of all literature. They are the writer's private signature, their authorial fingerprint.<br>In this ground-breaking and intensely revealing new biography, including previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archives, Richard Bradford reveals how Hemingway all but erased his own existence through a lifetime of invention and delusion, and provides the reader with a completely new understanding of the Hemingway oeuvre.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"A blistering, rollicking, horribly convincing account of a compelling literary monster ... [a] fascinating book." --<i>The Sunday Times</i> <p/>"In a new revisionist biography by Richard Bradford, we learn, from his astute analysis of previously unpublished letters from the Hemingway archive that there is indeed a good deal more to know about this 'scrapper intellectual', and 'role player'." --<i>The Irish Independent</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Independent</i> 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 <i>Spectator</i> and the <i>Sunday Times</i> and has been interviewed on his work for various BBC Radio Arts programmes, as well as appearing on the Channel 4 series <i>Writers in their Own Words</i>. His <i>The Importance of Elsewhere</i>, on Larkin the photographer, inspired a BBC TV programme and, most recently, his biography <i>Orwell</i> was given five stars as an 'excellent new biography' by <i>The Telegraph</i>.
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