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Hemingway's Boat : Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost

Hemingway's Boat : Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost

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Paul Hendrickson
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • Publication date: 2014
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Weight: 0.66 kg Note that the actual book cover may differ from the picture

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity--to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.