True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir

Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0684849216 / ISBN 13: 9780684849218

Published by Scribner, 1999

About this Item

First edition. One inch tear along base of rear jacket panel mended with clear tape. 1999 Hard Cover. 319, [1] pp. 8vo. "True at First Light is a work by American novelist Ernest Hemingway released posthumously in 1999 during the author's centennial year. The work was left unfinished at the time of Hemingway's suicide in July 1961. True at First Light is about Hemingway's 1953 safari to East Africa with his fourth wife Mary. In the work, he explores conflict within a marriage, the conflict of cultures, and the fear a writer faces when writing appears to become impossible, all the while describing on the surface, a hunting trip in Kenya. The book includes descriptions of fictional relationships, and digressive ruminations on the nature of writing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684849216
• ISBN 13: 9780684849218
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 22 ounces

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Synopsis

In commemoration of the Hemingway Centennial, the last unpublished work by the great American author contains a fictional account of his last African safari, a novel that mixes adventure, romance, and satire. 200,000 first printing. First serial, The New Yorker. BOMC Main. QPB Alt.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway ranks as the most famous of twentieth-century American writers; like Mark Twain, Hemingway is one of those rare authors most people know about, whether they have read him or not. The difference is that Twain, with his white suit, ubiquitous cigar, and easy wit, survives in the public imagination as a basically, lovable figure, while the deeply imprinted image of Hemingway as rugged and macho has been much less universally admired, for all his fame. Hemingway has been regarded less as a writer dedicated to his craft than as a man of action who happened to be afflicted with genius. When he won the Nobel Prize in 1954, Time magazine reported the news under Heroes rather than Books and went on to describe the author as "a globe-trotting expert on bullfights, booze, women, wars, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, and courage." Hemingway did in fact address all those subjects in his books, and he acquired his expertise through well-reported acts of participation as well as of observation; by going to all the wars of his time, hunting and fishing for great beasts, marrying four times, occasionally getting into fistfights, drinking too much, and becoming, in the end, a worldwide celebrity recognizable for his signature beard and challenging physical pursuits.