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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Paul Hendrickson
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Description for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Paperback. She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast and archipelagos of Cuba. Num Pages: 720 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 199 x 53. Weight in Grams: 666.
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'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast and archipelagos of Cuba.'
Even in his most accomplished period, Hemingway carried within him the seeds of his tragic decline and throughout this period he had one constant - his beloved boat, Pilar. The boat represented and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
720
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099565994
SKU
V9780099565994
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Paul Hendrickson
Paul Hendrickson is the prize-winning author of Seminary; Looking for the Light; The Living and the Dead and Sons of Mississippi. He currently teaches non-fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and for two decades before that he was a staff writer at the Washington Post.
Reviews for Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Rich, magisterial... Unforgettable
Ed Caesar
Sunday Times
This is the best, most understanding portrait of Hemingway yet written
Allan Massie
Telegraph
To use Hemingway's favourite term of praise, it is not just enthralling, it is 'fine'
Michael Prodger
Financial Times
Masterly... Heartbreaking... Brilliant
New York Times
Bewitchingly beautiful... Hendrickson ... Read more
Ed Caesar
Sunday Times
This is the best, most understanding portrait of Hemingway yet written
Allan Massie
Telegraph
To use Hemingway's favourite term of praise, it is not just enthralling, it is 'fine'
Michael Prodger
Financial Times
Masterly... Heartbreaking... Brilliant
New York Times
Bewitchingly beautiful... Hendrickson ... Read more