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Ernest Hemingway: A Biography
Written by Mary V. Dearborn
Narrated by Tanya Eby
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A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short-story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end, and whose seven novels and six-short story collections informed-and are still informing-fiction writing generations after his death.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mary Dearborn does great work to separate the Hemingway myth of his later years from the complicated and frustrating artist who won such acclaim. I was struck again and again by how fleeting the age of the novel was, and struggle to imagine an author ever capturing the public imagination again. The final chapters ran long in their focus on Hemingway's decline, and circumspect review of how his treatments (pharmaceutical, therapeutic, diagnostic) could have been improved just a few years later. The book does not hang well together in a short reading, with many anecdotes and observations re-hashed and reframed, as though the editors anticipated the book being serialized or excerpted; over explaining small details to ensure that a reader of a single chapter doesn't lack context left me constantly pulled out of the flow of the book thinking, "yes, didn't we just go over that?"
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I have probably read more about Hemingway then what he actually wrote. Second full biography and a few topic type books on him. This one digs deeply into the character and psyche of the man, and it's not a very nice picture. Hemingway was all about image and personna, but going beneath that veneer was a fairly troubled individual who in spite of his many friends and acquaintances managed to alienate quite a few of them.His family history and relationships with parents and siblings set the stage for much of what played out in his life as is usually the case with most people. His writing much if not most autobiographically paints how he viewed himself as well as the many counter players. Dearborn captures much of these complexities and entanglements through his wives, family, and friends. His tragic decline was inevitable and despite that ending we cannot say the man did not live much larger then most. Albeit in a world he created as much of fiction as his writing.