Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917-1961
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: trade ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind every great literary legend lies a private voice, and in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917–1961, that voice speaks with startling candour, wit, and ferocity. Spanning nearly half a century of correspondence, this meticulously curated collection presents Hemingway at his most unguarded — writing to friends, fellow authors, editors, and family across the battlefields of World War I, the salons of Paris, the fishing waters of Cuba, and the final, turbulent years of his life. Here is the man behind the myth: blustering and tender, opinionated and achingly vulnerable, his prose as lean and muscular in a personal letter as in any of his celebrated novels. Edited by the eminent Hemingway scholar Carlos Baker, whose authoritative biography remains the definitive account of the author's life, this volume is an indispensable document for anyone serious about American literature. Baker's selection illuminates the full arc of Hemingway's creative evolution, revealing how his hard-won aesthetic philosophy — truth-telling stripped of all pretension — was forged not just at the writing desk, but in the raw, unfiltered rush of lived experience. Readers who think they know Ernest Hemingway will find themselves reconsidering everything they thought was certain.
Author: Carlos Baker
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Genre: Biography
Edition: trade ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Behind every great literary legend lies a private voice, and in Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters: 1917–1961, that voice speaks with startling candour, wit, and ferocity. Spanning nearly half a century of correspondence, this meticulously curated collection presents Hemingway at his most unguarded — writing to friends, fellow authors, editors, and family across the battlefields of World War I, the salons of Paris, the fishing waters of Cuba, and the final, turbulent years of his life. Here is the man behind the myth: blustering and tender, opinionated and achingly vulnerable, his prose as lean and muscular in a personal letter as in any of his celebrated novels. Edited by the eminent Hemingway scholar Carlos Baker, whose authoritative biography remains the definitive account of the author's life, this volume is an indispensable document for anyone serious about American literature. Baker's selection illuminates the full arc of Hemingway's creative evolution, revealing how his hard-won aesthetic philosophy — truth-telling stripped of all pretension — was forged not just at the writing desk, but in the raw, unfiltered rush of lived experience. Readers who think they know Ernest Hemingway will find themselves reconsidering everything they thought was certain.