The Importance of Not Being Ernest My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9781642504637
  • 31 mei 2022
  • 256 pagina's
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Mark Kurlansky

Mark Kurlansky woont in New York en is schrijver van de internationale bestsellers De kabeljauw en Zout. Voor De kabeljauw ontving hij de James Beard Award for Excellence in Food Writing.

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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other ...illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before. -Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through #1 New Release in Historical Latin America Biographies Discover Hemingway's biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway's death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway's and Kurlansky's lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain-both cities important to Hemingway's adventurous life and prolific writing. Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there-those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing. In this unique gift for writers, find: A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories Little-known historical facts about Hemingway's life Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls hemitis Readers of Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.

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31 mei 2022
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Mango Media

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