Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961

Hemingway's boat : everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961 / Paul Hendrickson.

An illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from his pinnacle until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant...

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Main Author: Hendrickson, Paul, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, c2011.
Subjects:
Hemingway, Ernest, > 1899-1961.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Journalists > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • Amid so much ruin, still the beauty
  • Getting her. American light ; That boat ; Gone to firewood ; States of rapture
  • When she was new, 1934-1935. Home ; Shadow story ; High summer ; Catching fish ; On being shot again ; Outside worlds ; Exuberating, and then the jackals of his mind
  • Before. Edens lost and darkness visible
  • Old men at the edge of the sea : Ernest/Gigi/Walter Houk, 1949-1952 and after. Moments supreme ; Facet of his character ; The gallantry of an aging machine ; Braver than we knew ; In spite of everything ; "Necrotic" ; What he had ; Reenactment
  • Hunger of memory
  • On the curious afterlife of Pilar.

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