HEMINGWAY A Biography - Hardcover
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Distinguished by its precision, its graceful use of language, and its resonant depth, the innovative style of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) radically altered literary conventions and influenced generations of writers. In The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, and numerous short stories, he explored such universal themes as stoicism in adversity, as well as our futile struggles against nature and mortality. This evocative, sympathetic biography illuminates the events that informed Hemingway's vigorous an accident-prone youth and early rivalry with his father; his experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II; his stormy relationships with writers and women; his sudden fame, slow decline, and suicide. Based on previously unavailable information and exclusive interviews, Hemingway enriches anyone's understanding and appreciation of America's most important twentieth-century writer. Illustrated with photos.
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About the Author
Jeffrey Meyers is the author of several biographies, the most recent of which is Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. Cooper Square Press has published his biographies of Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Conrad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, and Katherine Mansfield.
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Based upon archival research and personal interviews, the essays recreate biographical and historical contexts that illuminate many facets of Hemingway's work and career. The style of the pieces is characteristically direct and assertive. Whether or notreaders agree with all of his conclusions, they will find the essays of Jeffrey Meyers accessible, informative, and invigorating. (Hugh Witemeyer, The Future of Modernism )
Meyers is an adventurous scholar who finds out things about Hemingway that have eluded his less adventurous rivals....In the final essay of this lively collection, he goes behind the scenes to reveal himself as a shrewd and indefatigable searcher after the truth of his subject. (Eugene Goodheart, Does Literary Studies Have a Future )
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