* Preface * Part One: 1899--1919 *1. "I Had a Wonderful Novel to Write About Oak Park" *2. A Peculiar Idea *3. A Land of Magic *4. The Championship Game * Part Two: 1919--1923 *5. Rejection Slips *6. "The World's a Jail and We're Going to Break It Together" *7. Americans in Paris *8. Dragons' Teeth *9. Sports * Part Three: 1923--1926 *10. "Nick in the Stories Was Never Himself" *11. "We Have More Pun Together All the Time" *12. Harold and Horace, Scott and Zelda *13. Betrayals *14. Double Meanings * Part Four: 1926--1936 *15. "I Loved Her Pine" *16. A Hollow Man *17. Mens Morbida in Corpore Sano *18. The Big Out * Part Five: 1936--1945 *19. The Spanish Tragedy *20. "Book Selling Like Frozen Daiquiris in Hell" *21. Combined Operations * Part Six: 1945--1961 *22. Horrors *23. "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?" *24. "The Country Is Beautiful Around Here" * Acknowledgments * Notes * Bibliography * Index
Essential… One reads Kenneth Lynn with excitement… He has shaped
Hemingway’s life and death into a story that approaches
tragedy.
*New York Times*
Not only one of the most brilliant and provocative literary
biographies in recent memory but also the study that Hemingway most
urgently needs at this point in his critical fortunes… Lynn has
provided a model of the way biographically informed criticism can
catch the pulse of works about which everything appeared to have
been said. In short, he has made Hemingway interesting again.
*New York Review of Books*
Magnificent… Lynn’s biography…never denies the ultimate heroism by
which Hemingway survived his own debilitating inner conflicts. He
never denigrates his genius. He has far too high a respect for the
fine fiction that such heroism elicited… [An] accomplished,
revealing and, all in all, profoundly sympathetic biography.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This is the most humane, balanced portrait of this extraordinary
writer to date. Lynn does not worship the macho Papa, or make easy
gibes at his subject’s vanities and fibs, but shows a damaged,
tormented, insecure man whose writing, for better and worse, was
the product of his own psychological struggle. Sane, well-judged,
it sends the reader back with renewed enthusiasm to the work.
*The Observer*
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