Hemingways Chair

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466836083
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's Chair written by Michael Palin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly--until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin's girlfriend and decides to modernize the friendly local office by firing dedicated but elderly employees and privatizing the business. Suddenly, gentle Martin is faced with a choice: meedly accept defeat as he always has, or fight for what he believes in, as his hero, Hemingway, would. Filled with Michael Palin's trademark wit and good humor, this novel is for anyone who has ever dreamed of triumphing over the technocrats and backstabbers of the world. Hilarious, touching, and ultimately inspirational, Hemingway's Chair will make readers stand up and cheer.

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312280468
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure written by Michael Palin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-07-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Palin comes a travelogue and biography of American writer and adventurer Ernest Hemingway, a companion to the four-part PBS series of the same title. 175 photos in color and b&w.

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780745179162
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's Chair written by Michael Palin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's Chair written by Michael Palin and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assistant postmaster Martin Sproale still lives with his mother and has a shrine to Ernest Hemingway in his bedroom. When an ambitious new supervisor fires old-timers and modernises the post office, Sproale decides to emulate his hero and become a rebel.

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312205503
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's Chair written by Michael Palin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-06-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's strengths are ... its dry, deftly understated wit; its careful plot and character construction;its clever on the money dialogue ... Those pleasures carry you a long way.

Author : Paul Hendrickson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307700534
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's Boat written by Paul Hendrickson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide—Paul Hendrickson traces the writer’s exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. We follow him from Key West to Paris, to New York, Africa, Cuba, and finally Idaho, as he wrestles with his best angels and worst demons. Whenever he could, he returned to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fight the biggest fish he could find, to drink, to entertain celebrities and friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to the diseases of fame, we see that Pilar was also where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities. Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway’s sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer’s boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity—to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. We see most poignantly his relationship with his youngest son, Gigi, a doctor who lived his adult life mostly as a cross-dresser, and died squalidly and alone in a Miami women’s jail. He was the son Hemingway forsook the least, yet the one who disappointed him the most, as Gigi acted out for nearly his whole life so many of the tortured, ambiguous tensions his father felt. Hendrickson’s bold and beautiful book strikingly makes the case that both men were braver than we know, struggling all their lives against the complicated, powerful emotions swirling around them. As Hendrickson writes, “Amid so much ruin, still the beauty.” Hemingway’s Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Man and the Sea written by Ernest Hemingway and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521897334
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 1, 1907-1922 written by Ernest Hemingway and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-20 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the first publication, in this edition, of all the surviving letters of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), readers will for the first time be able to follow the thoughts, ideas and actions of one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century in his own words. This first volume encompasses his youth, his experience in World War I and his arrival in Paris. The letters reveal a more complex person than Hemingway's tough guy public persona would suggest: devoted son, affectionate brother, infatuated lover, adoring husband, spirited friend and disciplined writer. Unguarded and never intended for publication, the letters record experiences that inspired his art, afford insight into his creative process and express his candid assessments of his own work and that of his contemporaries. The letters present immediate accounts of events and relationships that profoundly shaped his life and work. A detailed introduction, notes, chronology, illustrations and index are included. CLICK HERE to follow 'The Hemingway Letters' on Facebook CLICK HERE to watch Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's second son, discusses the letters and the writer's private persona with editor Sandra Spanier.

Author : Michael Palin
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250028248
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Truth written by Michael Palin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary man at a crossroads in life accepts an offer to travel to India as part of an effort to pen the biography of an elusive but highly influential activist and humanitarian.

Author : Suzanne Del Gizzo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781606350805
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hemingway's The Garden of Eden written by Suzanne Del Gizzo and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First book-length study of the novel that transformed Hemingway scholarshipWhen The Garden of Eden appeared in 1986, roughly twenty-five years after Ernest Hemingway s death, it was a watershed event that changed readers and scholars perceptions of the famous American author. Following five months in the life of protagonist David Bourne, a rising young writer of fiction, and his highly intelligent but artistically frustrated wife, Catherine, the novel is unique among Hemingway s works. Its exploration of gender roles and identities, unconventional sexual practices, race, and artistic expression challenged the traditional notions scholars and readers had of the iconic writer, and it sparked a debate that has revolutionized Hemingway studies.Suzanne del Gizzo and Frederic J. Svoboda have collected the best essays and reviews pieces that examine the novel s themes, its composition and structure, and the complex issue of editing a manuscript for posthumous publication and placed them in a single, cohesive volume.