HEMINGWAY'S BOAT: EVERYTHING HE LOVED IN LIFE, AND LOST,1934-1961.**
by HENDRICKSON**, PAUL:
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- 1847921930
- ISBN 13
- 9781847921932
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Paul Hendrickson has delved into the life of Ernest Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible: present him to us in a whole new light.
With poetic sensibility,tireless research,and dazzling writing, Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961,from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide.We see how,even in his most accomplished period,he carried within the seeds of his tragic decline.And throughout this period,he had one constant (along with the devils that haunted him his whole life) - his beloved boat,'Pilar',built to his specifications in a Brooklyn boatyard,delivered to him in Florida and then abandoned in Cuba towards the end of his life,when he was ill beyond recovery.The boat represented and witnessed everything he loved in life - virility,deep-sea fishing in all its competitive nature,access to the beloved ocean,freedom,women and booze,the formative years of his children.
We see Hemingway in Paris,in Key West,in Cuba,in New York - and so often on 'Pilar',or wanting to be.Hendrickson shows the close connection between Hemingway's life and the words that would wind up on the pages of his books; the fictions he invented about his life; how the darkness was always there,and the joie de vivre.We see him with Maxwell Perkins; his friend and rival,F. Scott Fitzgerald; Marlene Dietrich; his four wives and three children.And we get insight into his troubled son Gigi,a doctor who lived his adult life mostly as a cross-dresser,and died squalidly and alone in a Miami women's jail.He was the son Hemingway forsook the least,yet the one who disappointed him the most,as Gigi acted out for nearly his whole life so many of the tortured,ambiguous tensions his father felt.
This is a literary tour de force,an invaluable,unforgettable and original contribution to our understanding of a great American writer.
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Paul Hendrickson’s previous book, Sons of Mississippi, won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (1992 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons and lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia.
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- Title
- HEMINGWAY'S BOAT: EVERYTHING HE LOVED IN LIFE, AND LOST,1934-1961.**
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- HENDRICKSON**, PAUL:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE+.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
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- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1847921930
- ISBN 13
- 9781847921932
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- LONDON.THE BODLEY HEAD.2012.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 2012
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