false 10787 1 On the overloaded shelf of Hemingway biographies, this perceptive group portrait claims a unique spot. Focusing on his wives, lovers, and female friends, Bernice Kert highlights aspects of the writer's personality that are often shrouded by his hypermasculine public image. Women were certainly attracted by Hemingway's swaggering charm and boundless vitality, but they also discerned an underlying strain of sensitivity and vulnerability he concealed from the world. Although a friend once remarked that Hemingway was the only man he knew who really hated his mother, Kert's stereotype-shattering depiction of their combative relationship limns Grace Hall Hemingway in more nuanced terms than her son ever did and reminds readers that much of Hemingway's creativity and competitiveness came from her. The wives emerge as people in their own right, though journalist Martha Gelhorn was the only one to find her career more interesting than being Mrs. Hemingway. Kert's portraits of the unwitting models for the author's heroines reveal significant differences between the actual Agnes von Kurowsky and the fictional Catherine Barkley in <I>A Farewell to Arms</I>, between Duff Twysden and Brett Ashley in <I>The Sun Also Rises</I>. Hemingway tended to write about the ideal female; Kert restores the real women who shaped his life and art. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 13417 17 12 1998 The Hemingway Women total:20|5:8|4:8|3:2|2:2|1:0| 20 82 36 5 2 1 false false Thu Jun 05 07:47:04 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 07:49:37 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Sat Jul 11 05:37:59 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 11 05:45:44 -0700 2009 1+ 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Mar 03 20:55:35 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 03 20:59:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 20 19:01:02 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 20 19:05:14 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Aug 23 06:45:43 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 08:46:35 -0700 2007 2 0 false false Mon Nov 02 20:18:51 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 20:18:51 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Fri Oct 16 18:54:02 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 18:54:02 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 22:42:58 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 22:42:58 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Sep 02 14:26:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 14:26:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 10 12:28:59 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 12:28:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 14:06:47 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 14:06:47 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun May 24 19:06:27 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 19:06:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 12 14:02:44 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 14:02:44 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 02 19:29:58 -0700 2009 Sat May 02 19:30:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 21:38:03 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 21:38:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 29 12:26:17 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 12:26:23 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jan 22 00:48:36 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 00:48:36 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 13 11:31:30 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 11:31:30 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 13 08:37:49 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 08:37:49 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 04 17:15:55 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 04 17:15:55 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10787