Short description
Coinciding with the release of Papa starring Anthony Hopkins and Meg Ryanthe New York Times bestseller and classic portrait of one of Americas greatest writers
Long description
Between 1948 and 1961, Ernest Hemingway and A. E. Hotchner traveled together from New York to Paris to Spain, fished the waters off Cuba, hunted in Idaho, ran with the bulls in Pamplonaand once Hotchner even masqueraded as a matador and Hemingways manager in an actual bullfight. Everywhere they went, they talked. For fourteen years, Hotchner and Hemingway shared their thoughts and as Hemingway reminisced about his childhood, recalled the Paris literary scene of the twenties, and recounted the real events that lay behind his fiction, Hotchner took it all down. His notes on the many occasions he spent with his friend Papain Venice and Rome, in Key West, on the Riviera, and in Ketchum, Idaho, where Hemingway died by his own hand in 1961provide the material for this utterly profound, and truthfully compassionate best-selling memoir about the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. With a new introduction by the author and with never before published photographs from his personal collection, Papa Hemingway is a mesmerizing portrait.
Review
Remarkable...makes Hemingway live for us as nothing else has done . Wall Street Journal Make no mistake about it: this is a tragedy in the classic sense - the fall of a giant...it is hard to imagine a better biography . Life