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Hemingway, the 1930s, Michael Reynolds

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

individual biography

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Hemingway

bibliography

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Michael Reynolds

the 1930s

This new biography focuses on the complex Hemingway when fame is hitting full force - the years between A Farewell to Arms and the writing of For Whom The Bell Tolls. In a sympathetic narrative, Michael Reynolds creates a rich map of Hemingway's journey from promising young novelist to literary lion. He gives us the look and feel of the times and the people, as well as the give and take of literary life. These are the years of Hemingway's Esquire essays and war dispatches, the years that produced "Snows of Kilimanjaro" and Green Hills of Africa, years from which emerged the larger-than-life Hemingway. We come away from this book knowing more about what Hemingway wrote and why. We also know more about where we as a people have been, for Hemingway explored every element of his decade with the intensity of a natural historian. Drawing on a wealth of new material and period documents, Reynolds adds a human touch to a writer too often seen only in caricature

1929: The music changes -- 1930: The artist's reward -- 1931: On the road again -- 1932: Winner take nothing -- 1933: One trip across -- 1933-34: African game trails -- 1934: Pursuit remembered -- 1935: Heavy weather -- 1936: Boxing the compass -- 1937-38: A stricken field -- 1938-39: A piece of the continent