Hemingway's Boat Hemingway's Boat

Hemingway's Boat

Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

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Publisher Description

National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • National Bestseller • 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.

"Hendrickson’s two strongest gifts—that compassion and his research and reporting prowess—combine to masterly effect.” —Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review

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Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2011
September 20
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
544
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
9.8
MB

Customer Reviews

ErinOGreen ,

An engaging read

I enjoyed the linking of boat and man even though I'm not really a boat person. There's so much said about Hemingway, but Hendrickson has given the man some much needed compassion and vital humanity.

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Textual errors (in the hope that someone out there will fix the digital text)
MISSPELLING: Under her portrait, this slelf-description: “Why aren’t they contented like me?”
EXTRA SPACING in lean-to: “Swiss Army knives, a mess kit, extra pairs of socks, a lean- to tent, and cans of pork-and-beans.”

FatBitFriedEyes ,

A rare view from the inside track...

The life, or more accurately, the drive behind the pen, is revealed in this wonderful inside look to how writers write, what inspires them, and why they sometimes have despair, and more importantly, a high beyond the average mortal. My daughter gave this to me and I loved it so much I gave a hard copy to her mom who was fearful that the end of the tale would be the focus. It is not; it is barely mentioned, except in context. A remarkable man; a remarkable book, especially if you are a writer, a reader, AND a fisherman. Or even the wife of one.

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