Hemingway's Goblet - Softcover

Ross, Dermot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1738617602 ISBN 13: 9781738617609

Publisher: Mary Egan publishing, 2024

Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway wouldn’t approve of all the glowing adjectives, but there’s no denying
that Hemingway’s Goblet is smart, witty and at times uproariously funny.

Dermot Ross has created a memorable and flawed lead character named Nick Harrieson, a
divorced middle-aged law professor who is popular with students at his university in London but
haplessly (and hopelessly) naive and noncommittal when it comes to his relationships with
women. Nick doesn’t help himself when he allows himself to be drawn into an ill-advised
relationship with one of his masters students, a Korean woman named Adrienne. Soon he finds
himself the subject of a sexual harassment allegation.

Forced to take a one-month leave while the university investigates, he learns that his grandfather
was in Pamplona in the 1920s, and in due course he finds out that the goblet sitting on his
sister’s mantlepiece with a mysterious inscription was a gift from Hemingway to Grandpa
Harrieson in 1925. Nick’s quest to learn more about his grandfather and the goblet leads to his
joining forces with Adrienne as they uncover some unsavory revelations about the great author.
Nick also is forced to confront a number of aspects about his own character and life.

This clever literary gem is much more than a novel. It takes readers on a wild ride from London to
Auckland to Thailand to Hemingway’s Spain. Dermot Ross provides a gentle leg-pull on many of
Hemingway’s renowned and toxic characteristics, but without disrespecting the quality of
Hemingway’s writings. The portrait of the Nobel Prize winner that emerges is comical and at
times scandalous.

The book is part mystery, part romance, part historical fiction, and all parts delightfully rollicking.

"The read is just delightful and I highly recommend it" - Christine M Whitehead, author of Hemingway's Daughter

"Though Dermot Ross's book is a novel, Hemingway scholars may also enjoy the book, although you
don’t need to be a scholar to be drawn into the story. Ross creates a setting in Spain in the 1920s,
where readers see a sketch of what might well have been the real Hemingway, and the book
presents an amusing take on the origins of The Sun Also Rises. However you look at it Hemingway’s
Goblet is an enjoyable read." -- Curtis L DeBerg, author of Traveling the World with Hemingway

“I read Hemingway’s Goblet in one sitting. Kudos to Ross who, with a sure hand, leads the reader back in time to Spain in the 1920s, to Asia in World War II, and finally to modern-day Spain, where his characters behave almost as badly as the characters in The Sun Also Rises.” — Nicholas Reynolds, author of the New York Times bestseller Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway’s Secret Adventures, 1935-1961

“Original and highly entertaining.” -- Graeme Lay, author of Larry & Viv

Edition details

• Publisher: Mary Egan publishing
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1738617602
• ISBN 13: 9781738617609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320