Ernest Hemingway - Softcover

Burgess, Anthony

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ISBN 10: 0500260176 ISBN 13: 9780500260173

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1999

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Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer to engage life to the fullest in order to write about it, and his own life was the perfect demonstration of that principle. Reissued to coincide with the centenary of Hemingway's birth, Anthony Burgess's insightful biography traces the rapidly changing scene from a happy, complacent childhood to the grim reality of the First World War and the vulgar unreality of the Second; from the Paris of the 1920s to the Spain of Civil War and the excitements of African safari to the somber last years in Cuba. Hemingway was rich and successful from an early age, yet public acclaim and even the Nobel Prize could not disguise the fact that he was a moody, suffering, and sometimes vicious figure--a man who was finally unable to live with his own image.

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Book Description:

The legendary director's 1970s bio of the great Papa Hemingway, with incredible stories from the man's friends and family. With a new introduction.

About the Author:

Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) was a novelist, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic. He is best known for his novel, A Clockwork Orange, but altogether he wrote thirty-three novles, twenty-five works of non-fiction, two volumes of autobiography, three symphonies, more than 150 other musical works and reams of journalism in his role as longtime literary critic for The Observer and The Guardian.

Patrick Marnham is a journalist and author, whose books include So Far from God (winner of the Thomas Cook Prize), The Man who Wasn't Maigret (winner of the Marsh Prize for Biography and an Edgar Allen Poe finalist), Dreaming with his Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera and Road to Katmandu (Tauris Parke Paperbacks). He has been Paris correspondent for The Independent, a reporter for Private Eye and Literary Editor of The Spectator, among other publications.

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