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Hemingway - A Biography
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From young literary lion in the 1920s to swaggering hero in the 1930s, drunken braggart in the 1940s and sad wreck in the late 1950s, Ernest Hemingway's progressively unpleasant personality has often obscured both his greatness as a writer and his complexity as a human being.
As a young writer in Paris, Hemingway learned gratefully from James Joyce and Ezra Pound - and these two masters were the only literary friends with whom he did not quarrel. But though his influential relationships with Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos were later cruelly destroyed and misrepresented by Hemingway, Jeffery Meyers shows that he retained a paradoxical generosity towards his former friends - and that antagonisms and betrayals ran both ways.
Similarly, Hemingway's outdated and often repugnant machismo tends to osbcure the positive side of his physical courage, occasional heroism and, above all, the passionate belief of this intensely bookish man that great writing comes out of wide personal experience in the real world.
Jeffrey Meyers' major Hemingway biography presents a great deal of new material from archives and interview, providing a candid, revealing and thorough account of Hemingway's turbulent career.
From young literary lion in the 1920s to swaggering hero in the 1930s, drunken braggart in the 1940s and sad wreck in the late 1950s, Ernest Hemingway's progressively unpleasant personality has often obscured both his greatness as a writer and his complexity as a human being.
As a young writer in Paris, Hemingway learned gratefully from James Joyce and Ezra Pound - and these two masters were the only literary friends with whom he did not quarrel. But though his influential relationships with Gertrude Stein, Scott Fitzgerald and John Dos Passos were later cruelly destroyed and misrepresented by Hemingway, Jeffery Meyers shows that he retained a paradoxical generosity towards his former friends - and that antagonisms and betrayals ran both ways.
Similarly, Hemingway's outdated and often repugnant machismo tends to osbcure the positive side of his physical courage, occasional heroism and, above all, the passionate belief of this intensely bookish man that great writing comes out of wide personal experience in the real world.
Jeffrey Meyers' major Hemingway biography presents a great deal of new material from archives and interview, providing a candid, revealing and thorough account of Hemingway's turbulent career.
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