false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166334020m/10791.jpg 10791 8 First published in 1966, this adulatory memoir made news by revealing that Ernest Hemingway's 1961 death was a suicide. It also provided the mythmaking, Nobel Prize-winning author with an opportunity to promulgate his preferred public persona from beyond the grave. Chronicling their friendship over the final 14 years of Hemingway's life, A.E. Hotchner vividly captured the writer's appeal as a man and his genius as a storyteller in extensive direct quotes. He draws from contemporary notes, tape recordings, and (he reveals in the foreword to this edition published for the Hemingway centennial) disguised excerpts from personal letters that Hemingway's widow, Mary, refused him permission to use. In conversation, Hemingway sounds like one of his own fictional heroes: terse, witty, profane, manly. Hotchner, in his mid-20s when they first met in 1948 and, he freely admits, "struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe," seldom evaluates either the veracity of or the motivations behind the writer's anecdotes. He makes no claim to be objective, which adds to the emotional force of the painful final chapters showing a desolate, depressed Hemingway convinced he could no longer write. By no means the whole truth, Hotchner's loving portrait shows Hemingway to readers as he wanted to be seen and as his most ardent admirers saw him. <I>--Wendy Smith</I> 1259323 1966 Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir total:130|5:37|4:57|3:27|2:7|1:2| 130 510 176 17 5 0 false false Thu Sep 17 19:11:28 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 10:04:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Feb 04 20:07:43 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 14:29:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 25 14:59:23 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 25 15:02:27 -0700 2008 In 1948 A.E. Hotchner was dispatched from New York to Havana by Cosmopolitan Magazine to do a story on Hemingway. Hotchner was in awe of the famous writer and tried to dodge the assignment. Well, it didn’t work and even as he was intimidated by the thoughts of how Hemingway would dismiss him...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 13:16:32 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 13:20:29 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 21:14:43 -0700 2009 Fri May 01 21:15:43 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Dec 26 22:25:04 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 22:25:44 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Jan 16 12:05:15 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 16 12:05:31 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 21 02:03:52 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 28 22:42:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 03:21:16 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 28 12:23:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Tue Nov 18 17:05:03 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 17:07:08 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Apr 02 09:51:43 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 09:53:01 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 14:30:56 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 14:34:43 -0700 2007 0 0 false false Sun Oct 05 08:42:51 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 05 08:45:15 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Nov 24 17:26:27 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 17:29:06 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Mon Oct 27 13:44:52 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 27 13:45:32 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Sun May 04 16:45:42 -0700 2008 Sun May 04 16:46:30 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Wed Dec 31 11:40:57 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 14:57:15 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Nov 20 19:42:59 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 19:42:59 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 16:50:48 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 16:50:50 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Nov 03 16:37:29 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 03 16:37:29 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10791