True at First Light

Hemingway, Ernest; Hemingway, Patrick

ISBN 10: 0684849216 / ISBN 13: 9780684849218

Published by Scribner, New York, NY, 1999

About this Item

New York, NY, Scribner, 1999. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth over dark green boards with gilt lettering on spine, 319 pp. Both a revealing self-portrait and a dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, this is Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work, written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. It was edited by his son, Patrick, whom accompanied Hemingway on safari and offers rare insights into the legendary writer. New, in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.

Seller Inventory # EM-B1193-02

Bibliographic Details

• Title: True at First Light
• Publisher: Scribner, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684849216
• ISBN 13: 9780684849218
• Binding: Quarter Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature and Fiction
  • Sports and Outdoors
  • Travel and Exploration

About this title

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In commemoration of the Hemingway Centennial, the last unpublished work by the great American author contains a fictional account of his last African safari, a novel that mixes adventure, romance, and satire. 200,000 first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.