Hemingway: The Homecoming - Softcover

Reynolds, Michael S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393319814 ISBN 13: 9780393319811

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1999

Synopsis

The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the writing of The Sun Also Rises. These are also the years of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona. Photographs

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Review:

...his mix of scholarly exactitude and racy prose continues to persuade me that this Life, when completed, will become the one that we return to and rely on. -- The Sunday Telegraph

Synopsis:

This third volume of Michael Reynolds' life finds Ernest Hemingway in Paris in 1926 having finished "The Sun Also Rises", and follows him through the dissolution of his first marriage and the beginning of his second. Reynolds describes the emergence of the public image of Hemingway and his development into a mature literary talent. He receals how the emerging Hemingway hero represented a break from figures in his earlier work and shows how this transition had its roots in Hemingway's own life.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0393319814
• ISBN 13: 9780393319811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300