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Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway by Verna Kale is an insightful biography that examines the life and legacy of the renowned American author. The book delves into Hemingway's adventurous life, literary achievements, and complex personality, offering a nuanced portrayal that goes beyond his public image. Kale explores the influences and experiences that shaped his writing, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the man behind the legend.
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You might enjoy this biography if you're fascinated by the life and legacy of one of America's most iconic writers. It offers insightful perspectives on Ernest Hemingway's adventures, writing style, and the complexities of his personality, appealing to readers who appreciate detailed and engaging analyses of literary figures.

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Ernest Hemingway

A thoroughly researched, balanced new biography of author, journalist and adventurer Ernest Hemingway.

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Ernest Miller Hemingway (21 July 1899 - 2 July 1961) enjoyed a life of literary triumph set against a backdrop of some of the grandest landscapes in the world. Ernest Hemingway by Verna Kale offers a new, narrative portrait that challenges some long-held assumptions about his life and craft. It re-examines the writer, sportsman, and celebrity through the stages of his long and varied career.

The book traces Hemingway's adventures as a Red Cross volunteer in the First World War, his apprenticeship as an expatriate poet in 1920s Paris, and his navigation of the burgeoning middlebrow fiction market. It also delves into his fraught relationships with his four wivesβ€”and with his own celebrityβ€”and his decades-long, ultimately unsuccessful, attempt to write a masterwork that would explode the boundaries of the American novel.

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Ernest Hemingway by Verna Kale has been praised for its ability to distil Hemingway's life into a compact, insightful narrative that highlights the tragic dimensions of his life contrary to his public persona. Reviewers appreciate its conciseness and the way it mirrors Hemingway's own style, proving that brevity can provide profound insight. Kale's biography is regarded as a valuable contribution to Hemingway studies, offering fresh perspectives that engage readers deeply.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780235783

Publisher: Reaktion Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Reaktion Books

Illustration: 27 illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 130.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Verna Kale is an Associate Research Professor in English at the Pennsylvania State University and Associate Editor of the Hemingway Letters Project. She is co-editor, with Sandra Spanier and Miriam B. Mandel, of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway Volume 6 (1934-1936), editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender, and editor of the Norton Library edition of The Sun Also Rises.

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