Carlos Baker - Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story

Written by Carlos Baker. Themes include Biographies & Memoirs.

"Now hailed as a classic, Carlos Baker's bestselling Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story brings into sharp focus one of the titans of twentieth-century American literature, a writer whose life itself was the stuff of legend. Baker draws not only on Hemingway's diaries, letters, and unpublished writings, but unlike more recent biographers, on the personal testimony of the artists and writers, sportsmen and soldiers-indeed, virtually all the men and women who played a part in Hemingway's career. The scenes are spectacular-Spain, Key West, Cuba, Kenya, Sun Valley - and the gallery of characters is a panorama of the literary history of our time: Fitzgerald, Ford, Pound, Stein, Dos Passos. Baker reveals a man of baffling complexity behind the myths and mystique of the Hemingway persona-volcanic, mercurial, frequently tortured, consumed with anxiety, yet always interesting. Here are the many faces of Hemingway: boxer, drinker, humorist, fisherman, hunter, lover, heroic activist; but above all, here is Hemingway, the most influential prose stylist of the century"-- Page [4] of cover.

Format: Paperback

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