Hemingway's Boat
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost. Ausgezeichnet: Chicago Tribune Prize for Literary Achievement / Hearrtland Prize 2012, Nominiert: National Book Critics Circle Awards 2012
(Sprache: Englisch)
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.
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Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist National Bestseller A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood."Hendrickson s two strongest gifts that compassion and his research and reporting prowess combine to masterly effect. Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961 from Hemingway s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.
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AMERICAN LIGHTAPRIL 3, 1934. The temperature in Manhattan got into the high sixties. G-men shot an accomplice of Dillinger's in Minnesota; the Nazis were running guns to the Moors; Seminoles were reviving a tribal dance in honor of alligators in Florida; Lou Gehrig had two homers in an exhibition game in Atlanta. And roughly the bottom third of America was out of work.
According to "Steamship Movements in New York," a column that runs daily in the business section of the Evening Journal, nine liners are to dock today. The SS Paris, 34,500 tons, is just sliding in after a seven-day Atlantic crossing, from Le Havre via Plymouth, at Pier 57 on the West Side of New York City.
"Expected to dock: 5:00 P.M.," reports the newspaper. And she does.
If this were a Movietone News item about Hemingway the big-game hunter, arriving home after eight months abroad, and you were in a darkened movie palace of the thirties awaiting the feature, you'd see ropes being thrown off, gangplanks being lowered, steamer trunks being unloaded, and passengers starting gaily to stream off. You'd see the New York press boys with their rumpled suits and stained ties and skinny notebooks and Speed Graphic cameras clawing for position. The blocky white lettering superimposed on the flickering images would announce: "Back from Lion Hunt in East Africa!" They'd bring up the sound track-something stirring, to suggest the march of time. And then would come the voice-over wouldn't it be Ed Herlihy's? with its electric charge: "Famed author Mr. Ernest Hemingway, just back on the French liner Paris with Mrs. Hemingway from conquering the lion and the rhino and the wildebeest and the greater kudu, says that death in the afternoon is far less engrossing in a Spanish bull ring than on the African veldt."
The press boys clotted at the bottom of the gangplank badly want Hemingway, and they want Katharine Hepburn (she is on the boat, too, and makes wonderful copy, when she deigns to speak), but
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apparently none of them knows (for none of their papers will have it tomorrow) that an even bigger trophy has just berthed at Pier 57: Marlene Dietrich. She's going to give them the nifty slip. Publicity? Who needs it? Maybe Dietrich's hiding out in her stateroom. She might have registered under a different name-glamorous figures routinely do this. In fact, Hepburn is on the manifest as "Miss Katherine Ludlow." (Her husband is Ludlow Ogden Smith.) She has decided not to hide from the pack.
The famous and close and long-lasting Dietrich-Hemingway friendship dates from this Atlantic crossing. For the rest of his life, Hemingway mostly called her the Kraut, when he wasn't addressing her as "daughter," the latter being how he liked to address women younger than himself, famous or otherwise, whom he'd not apparently taken to bed. Dietrich was two and a half years younger. There is a well-traveled story about how she was stepping into the ship's dining room to join a dinner party. Every open-jawed man at the table rose to give her his chair, but just as she started to sit down, the international flame with the statuesque body and lusty voice counted the mouths and saw that there were twelve diners. "Oh. I'm the thirteenth. You will excuse me if I don't join you. I'm superstitious about thirteen at dinner," she said, starting to withdraw. But just then Hemingway blocked her way. "Excuse me," he said. "I don't mean to intrude. But I'd be glad to be the fourteenth."
Afterward, they supposedly strolled the decks arm in arm and told each other-maybe like Bogart and Claude Rains in Casablanca, except that that movie hadn't been made yet-that this was going to be the start of a beautiful friendship. At least this is the legend, and Dietrich herself greatly helped it along in 1955 in a first-person cover story in the Sunday supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. The piece was tit
The famous and close and long-lasting Dietrich-Hemingway friendship dates from this Atlantic crossing. For the rest of his life, Hemingway mostly called her the Kraut, when he wasn't addressing her as "daughter," the latter being how he liked to address women younger than himself, famous or otherwise, whom he'd not apparently taken to bed. Dietrich was two and a half years younger. There is a well-traveled story about how she was stepping into the ship's dining room to join a dinner party. Every open-jawed man at the table rose to give her his chair, but just as she started to sit down, the international flame with the statuesque body and lusty voice counted the mouths and saw that there were twelve diners. "Oh. I'm the thirteenth. You will excuse me if I don't join you. I'm superstitious about thirteen at dinner," she said, starting to withdraw. But just then Hemingway blocked her way. "Excuse me," he said. "I don't mean to intrude. But I'd be glad to be the fourteenth."
Afterward, they supposedly strolled the decks arm in arm and told each other-maybe like Bogart and Claude Rains in Casablanca, except that that movie hadn't been made yet-that this was going to be the start of a beautiful friendship. At least this is the legend, and Dietrich herself greatly helped it along in 1955 in a first-person cover story in the Sunday supplement of the New York Herald Tribune. The piece was tit
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Autoren-Porträt von Paul Hendrickson
Paul Hendrickson s previous book, Sons of Mississippi, won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program 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 (1992 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons and lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Hendrickson
- 2012, 704 Seiten, Maße: 13,4 x 20,3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 1400075351
- ISBN-13: 9781400075355
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.10.2014
Sprache:
Englisch
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I read [Hemingway s Boat] without a pause. . . . [It s] a biography that is at once admiring and devastating, and full of material that I wouldn t have thought even existed and of people who knew Hemingway whom I d never heard of an eye opener of a book, full of unexpected riches, fascinating digressions, and leaving one at the end wishing the book were longer, and thinking long and hard about the price of fame and success in America, and the dangers of seemingly getting everything you wanted out of life it just may be the best book I ve read this year, and certainly the best book I ve read about an American writer in a long, long time. Michael Korda, Newsweek Favorite Books 2011A lyrical and expansive search for the essence of a famous writer heart, soul, and hull. Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Top Picks of 2011
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 2011
Hendrickson s engrossing book offers a fresh slant on the rise and fall of a father figure of American literature. San Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2011
There s never been a biography quite like this one. . . . The stories are rich with contradiction and humanity, and so raw and immediate you can smell the salt air. Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011: The Top 10
Rich and enthralling . . . Paul Hendrickson is a deeply informed and inspired guide. He often appears in the first person, addressing the reader and exhorting him or her to speculate, imagine, or feel. He has researched exhaustively, been to the places Hemingway frequented, and talked to whoever was part of or had a connection to the Hemingway days. His diligence and spirit are remarkable. It is like traveling with an irrepressible talker who may go off on tangents but never loses the power
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to amaze. . . . Hemingway s Boat is a book written with the virtuosity of a novelist, hagiographic in the right way, sympathetic, assiduous, and imaginative. It does not rival the biographies but rather stands brilliantly beside them the sea, Key West, Cuba, all the places, the life he had and gloried in. His commanding personality comes to life again in these pages, his great charm and warmth as well as his egotism and aggression. James Salter, The New York Review of Books
Large-minded [and] rigorously fair. . . . An indispensable document. . . . With this sterling summation of the entire Hemingway canon, Hendrickson shows what has eluded some very able scholars. A writer s life can contain two conflicting existences, one of purely original genius and one of irreversible destructiveness. It s a lucky genius who gets credit for the first and a free pass on the second. Hendrickson issues no free pass to Papa. He gives the ravaged old man something more honest: a fair summing-up of a life like no other. Howell Raines, The Washington Post
A rich book and a wandering one. . . . Hemingway s Boat is about Hemingway, about what was good in him and what was bad, about what brought a man who took pleasure in so much to the point where he could take his own life. It is about the joy he spread and the infection he carried. . . . For Hendrickson, discovering just how unhappy and unsettled Hemingway was for so long makes him more of a hero. He states his case persuasively, which is why this book is so good. Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal
Heartbreaking . . . Hemingway s Boat includes some of the most moving, beautiful pieces of biography I have ever read. . . . In the best of these streaming other lives . . . Hendrickson s two strongest gifts that compassion and his research and reporting prowess combine to masterly effect. Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . Through painstaking reporting, through conscientious sifting of the evidence, and most of all, through vivid, heartfelt, luminous writing, Hendrickson gets to the heart of both Hemingway and his world. . . . Hendrickson writes sentences that seem lit from within but not in a showy way. Rather, they glow with the yearning of the humble seeker, the diligent observer who understands that we ll never get to the end of the Hemingway story yet we have to start somewhere. Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Glorious. . . . A copious, mystical portrait. . . . [Pilar] proves that there just might be one more way of telling Papa s story. . . . Hendrickson handles her like the relic she is, and makes of her a cunning, capable metaphor for Hemingway s contradictory drives . . . Hendrickson fills in the negative space exuberantly. He imagines each scene completely, and then imagines himself into it. The book becomes a participatory biography the details are rendered with a hallucinatory intensity . . . This big-hearted book leaves us with a litany of sorrows, but also images of grace: of heroism in Gigi s muddled final moments; of tenderness and lucidity in Hemingway s paranoid last days; and of Pilar and her promise of escape, renewal, and the open sea. Parul Sehgal, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The most honest and honestly excellent prose about Papa Hemingway to date . . . Hendrickson s quirky, compelling, and compassionate biography of a literary lion slants great. Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Louisville Courier-Journal
This unfailingly intelligent meditation on the achievement of genius and the corrosion of fame brings a man we thought we knew to life in a wholly different light. Newsweek
[Pilar is a] brilliant conceit. . . . No wan symbol or factitious theory [serves] as blinkered Virgil, but instead a tactile, intensely documented, sensual, action-crammed vessel that [carries] a rich cargo of story. . . . The utilitarian yet graceful lines of Pilar form a sturdy armature for the sculpture of Hemingway that Hendrickson hews from the marble of history in Hemingway s Boat. Thanks to Hendrickson s insights, his laborious research, and his sturdy, cannily wrought, often lyrical prose, the famed novelist comes alive again in uncluttered, fresh dimensions, vividly at the helm of his boat once more. Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review
An often lyrical mélange of biography, lit-crit meditation and straight reportage . . . Hendrickson delves deep into the margins, running down fascinating profiles of a handful of characters who had been treated like bit players in earlier works and searching for renewed significance in some episodes that had previously been relegated to footnotes. . . . Smart and lovingly crafted, a worthy addition. Larry Lebowitz, Miami Herald
This may be the great Hemingway book of the past twenty years. It gives us, at long last, the New Hemingway we ve needed. We are persuaded that, at long last, we have somehow encountered Hemingway whole apparition and monster, buffoon and barbarian, literary titan and pretender, macho man and soft-hearted benefactor, and above all, the great artist wrestling with anxieties that are secret gifts and advantages that were vicious impediments. . . . [Hendrickson is] so attentive to detail that he will notice the polish on a woman s nails, but, at the same time, so intuitive that he can neutralize some of the oldest toxins flowing through the bloodstream of Hemingway s life narrative. Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
Writing with stylistic verve, great heart and profound insight, Paul Hendrickson gives us a fresh way to understand one of the most written-about, fascinating characters in American letters. . . . Hendrickson doesn t reveal Hemingway s life as much as he illuminates it with his characteristic passion and intelligence, in a great match of biographer and subject. Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune
Paul Hendrickson wrote Hemingway s Boat almost as a rebuke to the many conflicting Hemingway biographies and daffy critical studies. If he could ground a narrative in something that existed and still exists, that Hemingway loved, if he could learn about such a treasured possession, then maybe he could learn something about Hemingway, too. He does, in spades, and so do Hendrickson s lucky readers. . . . Captivating. Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Engrossing. . . . Movingly told . . . Hemingway s Boat brings a commanding personality and all the fears and insecurities that came with it brilliantly to life side by side with the lives of minor characters, neglected witnesses who have their own stories to tell. J. Malcolm Garcia, The Kansas City Star
Inspired. . . . Enthralling. . . . Hendrickson writes so well that every page is a pleasure to absorb. Steve Weinberg, The Christian Science Monitor
Hendrickson s innovative writing and approach make for a book that is both delightful and profound. Choice
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. Fishing, fatherhood, manhood, writing, the infinite pull of the Gulf Stream these constitute only the starting point of Hendrickson s sympathetic, illuminating wanderings . . . Hendrickson s book is filled with intensity, humanity, and more. Starred review, Booklist
Splendid . . . A moving, highly evocative account . . . Seven years in the making, this vivid portrait allows us to see Hemingway on the Pilar once again, standing on the flying bridge and guiding her out of the harbor at sunrise. Appearing on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway s death, this beautifully written, nuanced meditation deserves a wide audience. Starred review, Kirkus
Admirably absorbing, important, and moving . . . Poignant . . . 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. Starred review, Publishers Weekly
Unique. . . . Hendrickson has come neither to praise nor bury his subject, but to give him a fair shot. . . . Featuring spry writing and clever insight but thankfully little critical analysis of Ernest Hemingway s work (that s been done to death), Hendrickson brings fresh meat to the table, delivering one of the most satisfying Hemingway assessments in many years. A delight for Ernesto s numerous fans. Starred review, Library Journal
Complex but clear and easy to follow . . . With fresh information and insights, [Hemingway s Boat] adds significantly as many other books have not to what we know about a complicated and great American writer. Clyde Edgerton, Garden & Gun
Hemingway's Boat is Paul Hendrickson at his peak, which is as good as it gets. I've not read a book in years that struck me so deeply paragraph after paragraph, page after page, chapter after chapter the writing, research, sensibility, honesty, sadness and guts to steer Pilar and Hemingway down so many unexplored and revelatory ocean streams. David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
The complex life of a deservedly renowned, brilliantly energetic storyteller is here told with knowing sensitivity, and remarkably, without resort to the mannerisms of the psychiatric clinic or to the various canons of the literary and educational worlds. In a sense, Paul Hendrickson, an essayist and skilled documentary writer, himself builds Hemingway s boat, sees its practical and metaphorical significance to a novelist who struggled mightily, sometimes with success, sometimes with failure, to navigate life s challenging hurdles, obstacles, opportunities, as they came his way, wave after wave of them, in his boldly, bravely original, yet often melancholy effort to stay afloat, keep on top of things as a writer, husband, father. Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Papa, along comes Hemingway's Boat. Paul Hendrickson proposes that the thirty-eight-foot motor yacht Pilar was the true love of Hemingway's life, and from this slant angle manages to bring the revered and reviled author of The Snows of Kilamanjaro back to life for us once again. Jay McInerney, author of How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
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, and he brings the reader directly into Papa's sultry Cuban lair like never before. A landmark publishing event. Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
Large-minded [and] rigorously fair. . . . An indispensable document. . . . With this sterling summation of the entire Hemingway canon, Hendrickson shows what has eluded some very able scholars. A writer s life can contain two conflicting existences, one of purely original genius and one of irreversible destructiveness. It s a lucky genius who gets credit for the first and a free pass on the second. Hendrickson issues no free pass to Papa. He gives the ravaged old man something more honest: a fair summing-up of a life like no other. Howell Raines, The Washington Post
A rich book and a wandering one. . . . Hemingway s Boat is about Hemingway, about what was good in him and what was bad, about what brought a man who took pleasure in so much to the point where he could take his own life. It is about the joy he spread and the infection he carried. . . . For Hendrickson, discovering just how unhappy and unsettled Hemingway was for so long makes him more of a hero. He states his case persuasively, which is why this book is so good. Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal
Heartbreaking . . . Hemingway s Boat includes some of the most moving, beautiful pieces of biography I have ever read. . . . In the best of these streaming other lives . . . Hendrickson s two strongest gifts that compassion and his research and reporting prowess combine to masterly effect. Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
Brilliant. . . . Through painstaking reporting, through conscientious sifting of the evidence, and most of all, through vivid, heartfelt, luminous writing, Hendrickson gets to the heart of both Hemingway and his world. . . . Hendrickson writes sentences that seem lit from within but not in a showy way. Rather, they glow with the yearning of the humble seeker, the diligent observer who understands that we ll never get to the end of the Hemingway story yet we have to start somewhere. Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
Glorious. . . . A copious, mystical portrait. . . . [Pilar] proves that there just might be one more way of telling Papa s story. . . . Hendrickson handles her like the relic she is, and makes of her a cunning, capable metaphor for Hemingway s contradictory drives . . . Hendrickson fills in the negative space exuberantly. He imagines each scene completely, and then imagines himself into it. The book becomes a participatory biography the details are rendered with a hallucinatory intensity . . . This big-hearted book leaves us with a litany of sorrows, but also images of grace: of heroism in Gigi s muddled final moments; of tenderness and lucidity in Hemingway s paranoid last days; and of Pilar and her promise of escape, renewal, and the open sea. Parul Sehgal, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
The most honest and honestly excellent prose about Papa Hemingway to date . . . Hendrickson s quirky, compelling, and compassionate biography of a literary lion slants great. Linda Elisabeth Beattie, Louisville Courier-Journal
This unfailingly intelligent meditation on the achievement of genius and the corrosion of fame brings a man we thought we knew to life in a wholly different light. Newsweek
[Pilar is a] brilliant conceit. . . . No wan symbol or factitious theory [serves] as blinkered Virgil, but instead a tactile, intensely documented, sensual, action-crammed vessel that [carries] a rich cargo of story. . . . The utilitarian yet graceful lines of Pilar form a sturdy armature for the sculpture of Hemingway that Hendrickson hews from the marble of history in Hemingway s Boat. Thanks to Hendrickson s insights, his laborious research, and his sturdy, cannily wrought, often lyrical prose, the famed novelist comes alive again in uncluttered, fresh dimensions, vividly at the helm of his boat once more. Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review
An often lyrical mélange of biography, lit-crit meditation and straight reportage . . . Hendrickson delves deep into the margins, running down fascinating profiles of a handful of characters who had been treated like bit players in earlier works and searching for renewed significance in some episodes that had previously been relegated to footnotes. . . . Smart and lovingly crafted, a worthy addition. Larry Lebowitz, Miami Herald
This may be the great Hemingway book of the past twenty years. It gives us, at long last, the New Hemingway we ve needed. We are persuaded that, at long last, we have somehow encountered Hemingway whole apparition and monster, buffoon and barbarian, literary titan and pretender, macho man and soft-hearted benefactor, and above all, the great artist wrestling with anxieties that are secret gifts and advantages that were vicious impediments. . . . [Hendrickson is] so attentive to detail that he will notice the polish on a woman s nails, but, at the same time, so intuitive that he can neutralize some of the oldest toxins flowing through the bloodstream of Hemingway s life narrative. Jeff Simon, Buffalo News
Writing with stylistic verve, great heart and profound insight, Paul Hendrickson gives us a fresh way to understand one of the most written-about, fascinating characters in American letters. . . . Hendrickson doesn t reveal Hemingway s life as much as he illuminates it with his characteristic passion and intelligence, in a great match of biographer and subject. Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago Tribune
Paul Hendrickson wrote Hemingway s Boat almost as a rebuke to the many conflicting Hemingway biographies and daffy critical studies. If he could ground a narrative in something that existed and still exists, that Hemingway loved, if he could learn about such a treasured possession, then maybe he could learn something about Hemingway, too. He does, in spades, and so do Hendrickson s lucky readers. . . . Captivating. Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Engrossing. . . . Movingly told . . . Hemingway s Boat brings a commanding personality and all the fears and insecurities that came with it brilliantly to life side by side with the lives of minor characters, neglected witnesses who have their own stories to tell. J. Malcolm Garcia, The Kansas City Star
Inspired. . . . Enthralling. . . . Hendrickson writes so well that every page is a pleasure to absorb. Steve Weinberg, The Christian Science Monitor
Hendrickson s innovative writing and approach make for a book that is both delightful and profound. Choice
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. Fishing, fatherhood, manhood, writing, the infinite pull of the Gulf Stream these constitute only the starting point of Hendrickson s sympathetic, illuminating wanderings . . . Hendrickson s book is filled with intensity, humanity, and more. Starred review, Booklist
Splendid . . . A moving, highly evocative account . . . Seven years in the making, this vivid portrait allows us to see Hemingway on the Pilar once again, standing on the flying bridge and guiding her out of the harbor at sunrise. Appearing on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway s death, this beautifully written, nuanced meditation deserves a wide audience. Starred review, Kirkus
Admirably absorbing, important, and moving . . . Poignant . . . 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. Starred review, Publishers Weekly
Unique. . . . Hendrickson has come neither to praise nor bury his subject, but to give him a fair shot. . . . Featuring spry writing and clever insight but thankfully little critical analysis of Ernest Hemingway s work (that s been done to death), Hendrickson brings fresh meat to the table, delivering one of the most satisfying Hemingway assessments in many years. A delight for Ernesto s numerous fans. Starred review, Library Journal
Complex but clear and easy to follow . . . With fresh information and insights, [Hemingway s Boat] adds significantly as many other books have not to what we know about a complicated and great American writer. Clyde Edgerton, Garden & Gun
Hemingway's Boat is Paul Hendrickson at his peak, which is as good as it gets. I've not read a book in years that struck me so deeply paragraph after paragraph, page after page, chapter after chapter the writing, research, sensibility, honesty, sadness and guts to steer Pilar and Hemingway down so many unexplored and revelatory ocean streams. David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi
The complex life of a deservedly renowned, brilliantly energetic storyteller is here told with knowing sensitivity, and remarkably, without resort to the mannerisms of the psychiatric clinic or to the various canons of the literary and educational worlds. In a sense, Paul Hendrickson, an essayist and skilled documentary writer, himself builds Hemingway s boat, sees its practical and metaphorical significance to a novelist who struggled mightily, sometimes with success, sometimes with failure, to navigate life s challenging hurdles, obstacles, opportunities, as they came his way, wave after wave of them, in his boldly, bravely original, yet often melancholy effort to stay afloat, keep on top of things as a writer, husband, father. Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Papa, along comes Hemingway's Boat. Paul Hendrickson proposes that the thirty-eight-foot motor yacht Pilar was the true love of Hemingway's life, and from this slant angle manages to bring the revered and reviled author of The Snows of Kilamanjaro back to life for us once again. Jay McInerney, author of How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
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, and he brings the reader directly into Papa's sultry Cuban lair like never before. A landmark publishing event. Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
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