Hemingway's Boat
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Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * National Bestseller * A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood."Hendrickson's two strongest gifts--that compassion and his research and reporting prowess--combine to masterly effect." --Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity--to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.
The nonfiction book Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson earned the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2003. He has been a member of the University of Pennsylvania's Creative Writing Department faculty since 1998. He worked as a staff writer for the Washington Post for two decades before that. Searching for the Light: Marion Post Wolcott's Secret Life and Art (1992 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 National Book Award finalist) are two of his other works. The Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation have all given him literary fellowships.
He was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice and American studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2009. He is the father of two adult sons and lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife, Cecilia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781400075355 |
| ISBN 10 | 1400075351 |
| Title | Hemingway's Boat |
| Author | Paul Hendrickson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2012-07-24 |
| Number of pages | 704 |
| Prizes | Winner of Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize 2012, Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2012 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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