Reviews
"It is one of the best books on Hemingway that I have read, and it has material to be found nowhere else on Ernest, Mary, and Greg Hemingway." NORMAN MAILER "Valerie Hemingway is, with Hemingway's only surviving son, the last witness to have a precious, intimate knowledge of the family. Her account of Ernest's last years and of the tragic aftermath of his suicide is absolutely riveting: essential reading for anyone interested in the curse of fame." JEFFREY MEYERS, author of Hemingway: A Biography "This is the best, and best written, of all the reminiscences of Ernest Hemingway, in part because its adventurous author, Valerie Hemingway, is such an absorbing character herself. For once, the great artist, the hero, and the fool seem to be the same person; and the long list of fascinating people in his train are seen with rare frankness." TOM MCGUANE "Running with the Bulls is hot to the touch. I was not a little dumbfounded that Valerie Hemingway endured and survived the events of her life to write this improbably skillful memoir that frequently made me wish to climb a mountain and sit on a friendly glacier. The author's life with the Hemingways is utterly compelling, and we must praise her for her gifts in giving us the most lucid look yet written at this haunted family." JIM HARRISON "This is a startling, complicated book . . . fresh, trenchant and intimate and revealing, yet sweet-spirited . . . told by a woman with a wonderful voice of her own." DAVID QUAMMEN, "It is one of the best books on Hemingway that I have read, and it has material to be found nowhere else on Ernest, Mary, and Greg Hemingway." -NORMAN MAILER "Valerie Hemingway is, with Hemingway's only surviving son, the last witness to have a precious, intimate knowledge of the family. Her account of Ernest's last years and of the tragic aftermath of his suicide is absolutely riveting: essential reading for anyone interested in the curse of fame." -JEFFREY MEYERS, author of Hemingway: A Biography "This is the best, and best written, of all the reminiscences of Ernest Hemingway, in part because its adventurous author, Valerie Hemingway, is such an absorbing character herself. For once, the great artist, the hero, and the fool seem to be the same person; and the long list of fascinating people in his train are seen with rare frankness." -TOM MCGUANE " Running with the Bulls is hot to the touch. I was not a little dumbfounded that Valerie Hemingway endured and survived the events of her life to write this improbably skillful memoir that frequently made me wish to climb a mountain and sit on a friendly glacier. The author's life with the Hemingways is utterly compelling, and we must praise her for her gifts in giving us the most lucid look yet written at this haunted family." -JIM HARRISON "This is a startling, complicated book . . . fresh, trenchant and intimate and revealing, yet sweet-spirited . . . told by a woman with a wonderful voice of her own." -DAVID QUAMMEN, "It is one of the best books on Hemingway that I have read, and it has material to be found nowhere else on Ernest, Mary, and Greg Hemingway." NORMAN MAILER "Valerie Hemingway is, with Hemingway's only surviving son, the last witness to have a precious, intimate knowledge of the family. Her account of Ernest's last years and of the tragic aftermath of his suicide is absolutely riveting: essential reading for anyone interested in the curse of fame." JEFFREY MEYERS, author of Hemingway: A Biography "This is the best, and best written, of all the reminiscences of Ernest Hemingway, in part because its adventurous author, Valerie Hemingway, is such an absorbing character herself. For once, the great artist, the hero, and the fool seem to be the same person; and the long list of fascinating people in his train are seen with rare frankness." TOM MCGUANE " Running with the Bulls is hot to the touch. I was not a little dumbfounded that Valerie Hemingway endured and survived the events of her life to write this improbably skillful memoir that frequently made me wish to climb a mountain and sit on a friendly glacier. The author's life with the Hemingways is utterly compelling, and we must praise her for her gifts in giving us the most lucid look yet written at this haunted family." JIM HARRISON "This is a startling, complicated book . . . fresh, trenchant and intimate and revealing, yet sweet-spirited . . . told by a woman with a wonderful voice of her own." DAVID QUAMMEN From the Hardcover edition.
