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Running with the Bulls : My Years with the Hemingways by Valerie Hemingway (2004, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100345467337
ISBN-139780345467331
eBay Product ID (ePID)30542263
Product Key Features
Book TitleRunning with the Bulls : My Years with the Hemingways
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSpecial Interest / Literary, Literary, American / General
Publication Year2004
IllustratorYes
GenreLiterary Criticism, Travel, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorValerie Hemingway
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight21.5 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2004-047071
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
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.52
SynopsisSent to interview Ernest Hemingway while working as a reporter in Spain in 1959, Valerie Hemingway was quickly adopted by the literary figure. At the age of 19, a few months after their first meeting, Ernest asked Valerie to become his secretary, but she became more than an employee to this mythic man; she became a constant companion to him and his wife Mary, joining them to watch the bullfights Ernest loved in Pampalona, for long dinners and dancing in the streets of Bilboa, and month-long travels across the Spanish and French countryside.In 1960, Hemingway asked her to travel with him to Cuba, where he taught her to fish on his boat, the Pilar, where she typed draft after draft of 'A Moveable Feast', and Hemingway confessed to her his suicidal thoughts. Upon his death in 1961, Valerie accompanied Mary, Hemingway's widow, to Cuba to sort through the thousands of papers left untouched since his departure for Sun Valley months before. From 1966 until their divorce in 1987 Valerie was married to Hemingway's estranged son Gregory, whom she met at Hemingway's funeral. Valerie and Gregory had four children together, in addition to four from Gregory's two previous marriages.From lunches with Orson Wells to reading early drafts of Hemingway's manuscripts to being serenaded by Frank Sinatra in Spain, Valerie Hemingway was witness to nearly every moment of Hemingway's final two years. Now, with unprecedented access to his personal papers and photographs, Valerie Hemingway offers a unique glimpse into the final years of this literary genius.
LC Classification NumberPS3515.E37Z54 2004
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