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Hemmingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson.. Detailed with logs and Hemmingway’s writings, this love story shows a tender side to the man mythologized as a egotistical macho brute. Worth climbing aboard, whether for the boat or the writer. – Joel Gardner, LitSnap Editor |
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"Acutely sensitive to his subject’s volatile, ‘gratuitously mean’ personality, Hendrickson offers fascinating details and sheds new light on Hemingway’s kinder, more generous side." – Publishers Weekly "Less a biography than a deeply reported, achingly considered meditative essay, Hemingway’s Boat covers a vast amount of territory in the life of the mythic, difficult-to-understand Papa, all of it coming back in some way to Hemingway’s beloved 38-foot, two-engine, ocean-plying Pilar." – Booklist |
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Author bio: Paul Hendrickson, a prizewinning feature writer for the Washington Post for more than twenty years, now teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Seminary: A Search, 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 with his wife and two sons in Philadelphia. More information can be found here: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/78500/hemingways-boat-by-paul-hendrickson/9781400041626/#abouttheauthor |
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Book Details: General Nonfiction; (544 pp. Kindle/Print editions) Publisher Website: http://www.randomhouse.com/book/78500/hemingways-boat-by-paul-hendrickson/9781400041626/ |
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