HEMINGWAY: LIFE & WORK
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (694 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 067149872X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 704 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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He focuses on key events and relationships that affected the novels and short stories that ultimately changed our literature: Hemingway's traumatic wounding in World War I; his wives and lovers; and, most importantly, the parents who shaped his Oak Park years. Photos. . Much of his own strength and talent was drawn from his mother, but her overpowering influence left other marks as well. Cursed with the same depressive streak, Hemingway was haunted by his father's suicide. BOMC alternate. She dressed him as a twin to his older sister when he was a toddler, an experience that undoubtedly contributed to the subsequent counter-posture of excessive masculinity central to Hemingway's public image. From Publishers Weekly Undaunted by the large body of biographical and critical work that has preceded his own, Lynn succeeds in casting the familiar life of Ernest Hemingway in a new and interesting light. Nevertheless, Lyn
CRT said Bashing Papa. The author, professor of history at John Hopkins and formerly chairman of Harvard's graduate program in American Civilization, depicts Hemingway as a deeply troubled man whose "fight with his own inner demons produced some of the greatest American fiction of the twentieth century". This is a far more dynamic biography than the earlier serious work by Carlos Baker, and therefore more controversial. Lynn methodically shows how incidents (or imagined incidents) in Hemingway's life reappeared in the content of his books. Basically, Hemingway almost always wrote about himself, but rarely hones. A Customer said Meticulous detail transcends Papa myth. Lovers of Hemingway as the macho, confident, larger than life hero may not like this book, but anyone who wants a vision of objective truth with the good and bad falling where the details say they should, will love this meticulously researched story of the real Hemingway. The author weaves the stuff of Hemingway's fiction into the record of his life, upsetting the hero worship attitudes of some earlier biographers by showing clearly how what Hemingway revealed himself to be was rarely truthful, and what was fiction often was his inner truth disquised. Although the book is over 700 pages, . Intresting but questionable facts(?) Having read several Hemingway biographies, I can verify that this book presents a very different view of Hemingway. I am inclined to believe that much of it is probably true and may be a more accurate presentation of Hemingway as he really was than most others. But in a biography the authors' credibility is most important, especially if the author obviously doesn't like his subject. One of several things that causes me concern in this area is the treatment of Hemingway's wartime relationship with Agnes von Kurowsky. I was astonished to find Lynn reporting that they had a full fledged sexu
But behind it all lurked an insecure, troubled man. Ernest Hemingway was a mythic figure of overt masculinity and vibrant literary genius. Lynn penetrates the Hemingway persona and explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured his work and eroded his life.. Now, in this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. He lived life on an epic scale, presenting to the world a character as compelling as the fiction he created