Hemingway's Boat (eBook)

Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961

Paul Hendrickson (Autor)

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2012 | 1. Auflage
720 Seiten
Random House (Verlag)
978-1-4464-8410-4 (ISBN)

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Paul Hendrickson has delved into the life of Ernest Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible: present him to us in a whole new light.

With poetic sensibility, tireless research, and dazzling writing, Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide. We see how, even in his most accomplished period, he carried within him the seeds of his tragic decline. And throughout this period, he had one constant (along with the devils that haunted him his whole life) - his beloved boat, Pilar, built to his specifications in a Brooklyn boatyard, delivered to him in Florida and then abandoned in Cuba toward the end of his life, when he was ill beyond recovery. The boat represented and witnessed everything he loved in life - virility, deep-sea fishing in all its competitive nature, access to the beloved ocean, freedom, women and booze, the formative years of his children.

We see Hemingway in Paris, in Key West, in Cuba, in New York - and so often on Pilar, or wanting to be. Hendrickson shows the close connection between Hemingway's life and the words that would wind up on the pages of his books, the fictions he invented about his life, how the darkness was always there, and the joie de vivre. We see him with Maxwell Perkins, his friend and rival, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, his four wives and three children. And we get insight into his troubled son Gigi, a doctor who lived his adult life mostly as a cross-dresser, and died squalidly and alone in a Miami women's jail. He was the son Hemingway forsook the least, yet the one who disappointed him the most, as Gigi acted out for nearly his whole life so many of the tortured, ambiguous tensions his father felt..

This is a literary tour de force, an invaluable, unforgettable, and hugely original contribution to our understanding of a great American writer.

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.1.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Segeln / Tauchen / Wassersport
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4464-8410-6 / 1446484106
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4464-8410-4 / 9781446484104