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Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 Hardcover – 12 Jan. 2012

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"A man who let who let his own insides get eaten out by the diseases of fame had dreamed new books on this boat. He'd taught his sons to reel in something that feels like Moby Dick on this boat. He'd accidentally shot himself in both legs on this boat. He'd fallen drunk from the flying bridge on this boat. He'd written achy, generous, uplifting, poetic letters on this boat. He'd propositioned women on this boat. He'd hunted German subs on this boat. He'd saved guests and family members from shark attack on this boat. He'd acted like a bully on this boat. She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her. She wasn't a figment or a dream or a literary theory or somebody's psychosexual interpretation - she was actual."

* Even in his most accomplished period, Hemingway carried within him the seeds of his tragic decline and throughout this period, he had one constant - his beloved boat, Pilar.

* Paul Hendrickson has delved into the life of Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible: present him to us in a whole new light.

* With poetic sensibility, tireless research, and dazzling writing, Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide. Hendrickson shows the close connection between Hemingway's life and the words that would wind up on the pages of his books.

* Hemingway's Boat is an unforgettable and unique contribution to our understanding of a great American writer.

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544 pages
Language

English
Publisher

Bodley Head
Publication date

12 Jan. 2012
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16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm
ISBN-10

1847921930
ISBN-13

978-1847921932
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Paul Hendrickson is the most innovative and creative nonfiction writer I know. Just read Hemingway's Boat and you'll see what I mean. He has an almost saintly compassion for both the greatness and the foibles of Hemingway. A landmark publishing event -- Professor Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge

In this rich, magisterial account, Paul Hendrickson charts the author's relationship with Pilar... Indeed, Hendrickson uses Pilar the way Hemingway did; to fish for 'monsters' in the deep. By the end of Hemingway's Boat, he has landed a prodigious haul. Not only has he spoken to everyone, and read everything - including nearly 7,000 of Hemingway's letters - but his own writing is lyrical and laced with insight... unforgettable -- Ed Caesar ― Sunday Times

Bewitchingly beautiful near-biography of Hemingway... Hendrickson is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life -- Olivia Laing ― Observer

The author, an accomplished storyteller, interprets myriad tiny details of Ernest Hemingway's life, and through them says something new about a writer everyone thinks they know ― The Economist, Books of the Year

Hemingway's Boat had me hooked from beginning to end. Every friend and acquaintance of Hemingway has been interviewed here. The result is an exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway - his pleasures, foibles and occasional generosities. Now, perhaps for the first time, the 'great man with great faults' emerges as distinctive and memorable as any of his fictional creations -- Ian Thomson ― Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

PAUL HENDRICKSON is the author of the New York Times bestseller Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, and Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the creative writing programme at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that, he was a staff writer at The Washington Post.

Among his other books are Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War, a finalist for the National Book Award.

He lives in Washington, D.C., and outside Philadelphia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bodley Head; First Edition (12 Jan. 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1847921930
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1847921932
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm

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M C Curd

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 March 2014

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This is the first biography of Hemingway I have read, after reading and enjoying a large amount of his own books, and to be honest I found a fair amount of it quite boring. Perhaps for devoted Hemingway fans this may well offer a different perspective to other biographys of the man, but I found there was no clear line or arc through the book, or much insight or analysis to many of the stories or vignettes.

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Kevin dale

You can feel the atmosphere of the man.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 December 2019

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Great book l have read it before when it first came out and wanted to read it again very good discription of Ernest Hemingway and his fishing boat feels like your there along with the man i would highly recommend it to fans and non fans alike.

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Simon J.

Excellent condition as described!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 September 2018

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I’m so pleased with my copy of Hemingway’s Boat. It is second hand, but it has been loved and cared for. The condition is exactly as described by awesome books. I will without any doubt be using them again. I can’t wait to get tucked in.... but first I need to finish my current read. Thank you Awesome Books.

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Not great

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 April 2013

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Could have been written / edited to half its length. Added little to the Hemingway story merely adding to the myth.

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Great for am Hemingway fan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 January 2014

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It might seem obvious, but this is repetitive if you're not eager to find out ever more about Hemingway's life. I loved th edeatil and the honesty.

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Alan Mackenzie

brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 April 2013

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best study of hemingway yet. Beautifully written, balanced piece. Superb insight, thoroughly researched. Fresh and sparkling. made Hemingway human abd fallible and yet admirable.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 February 2013

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Well written and showed Hemingway's life through the ownership of the boat.Did not dwell too much on his darker side

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