Hemingway: His Life and Work - Softcover

Lynn, Kenneth S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747403201 ISBN 13: 9780747403203

Publisher: Penguin Group (UK) Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

This is a biography of Ernest Hemingway, the author of "The Old Man and the Sea", "For Whom the Bells Tolls", "Death in the Afternoon" and many others.

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Review

Essential...One reads Kenneth Lynn with excitement...He has shaped Hemingway's life and death into a story that approaches tragedy.

This is the most humane, balanced portrait of this extraordinary writer to date. Lynn does not worship the macho Papa, or make easy gibes at his subject's vanities and fibs, but shows a damaged, tormented, insecure man whose writing, for better and worse, was the product of his own psychological struggle. Sane, well-judged, it sends the reader back with renewed enthusiasm to the work.

Magnificent...Lynn's biography...never denies the ultimate heroism by which Hemingway survived his own debilitating inner conflicts. He never denigrates his genius. He has far too high a respect for the fine fiction that such heroism elicited...[An] accomplished, revealing and, all in all, profoundly sympathetic biography.

Not only one of the most brilliant and provocative literary biographies in recent memory but also the study that Hemingway most urgently needs at this point in his critical fortunes...Lynn has provided a model of the way biographically informed criticism can catch the pulse of works about which everything appeared to have been said. In short, he has made Hemingway interesting again.--Frederick Crews "New York Review of Books "

From the Back Cover

In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway's work and eroded his life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Group (UK) Ltd
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747403201
• ISBN 13: 9780747403203
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720