Hemingway's Boat
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
- Paperback
720 pages
- Release Date
16 January 2013
Summary
This is a literary tour de force, an invaluable, unforgettable and original portrait of Ernest Hemingway and his beloved boat, Pilar.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“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 nor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099565994 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099565994 |
| Author: | Paul Hendrickson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 720 |
| Release Date: | 16 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 610g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 52mm |
| Series: | Vintage Books |
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Critics Review
Rich, magisterial… Unforgettable
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 is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life. – Olivia Laing * Observer *
Hemingway’s Boat had me hooked from beginning to end… An exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway – Ian Thomson * Sunday Telegraph *
A beautifully written and loving understanding of a very troubled genius – Jeffery Taylor * Sunday Express *
The author, an accomplished storyteller, interprets myriad tiny details of Ernest Hemingway’s life, and through them says something new about a writer everyone thinks they know. * The Economist, Books of the Year *
I read [Hemingway’s Boat] without a pause…an eye-opener of a book, full of unexpected riches, fascinating digressions… It just may be the best book I’ve read this year, and certainnly the best book I’ve read about an American writer in a long, long time – Michael Korda * Newsweek, Favorite Books of the Year *
Paul Hendrickson is the most innovative and creative nonfiction writer I know. Just read Hemingway’s Boat and you’ll see what I mean. He has an almost saintly compassion for both the greatness and the foibles of Hemingway. A landmark publishing event. – Professor Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
About The Author
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.
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