Book description
THE 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 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
witnessed everything he loved in life - virility, deep-sea fishing,
access to his beloved ocean, freedom, women and booze and the
formative years of his children.
Paul Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the
pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide. He has delved into the
life of Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible: present him to us
in a whole new light.
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
.
