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Originally Posted by Karen Pfeiffer
Thank you, Steve! This has been quite helpful. I will look into those books. :-)
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In the past year or so several new Hemingway related books have been published. I found Valerie Hemingway's fascinating. I bought it as an E-book, so I cannot reference it. I think the title is:
With the Hemingway Men....something like that.
The new edition of
A Moveable Feast was much better than the one edited by Mary in the 60's. They seem like two totally different books. I think Hem looked back on his Paris years with Hadley and "Bumbi" as some of his happiest. They didn't have a dime and lived in a one room flat over (next to?) a saw mill!
I have an old edition of
Death in the Afternoon which I love for its title if nothing else. I've just started it for the third or fourth time. Can't get thru it.
The new novel of Hadley and Hem in Paris is written in Hadley's voice. Interesting. She lived for quite a while after she and Ernie split. I think she remarried.
In Valery's book she writes about the Calder painting. I think I have seen a picture of it. Do you know where it is today?
I enjoy comparing Hemingway with Ruark. They almost met in one of Hem's favorite Cuban bars. Ruark wrote about walking in there and seeing Ernie working away at editing on a rear table. He didn't have the nerve to bother him. I wonder if the two men would have gotten along? Somehow I doubt it.
Read Hotchner and Baker's bios of the man. If I could go back to anyplace in time, it may have been on board the Pilar searching for U-Boats.
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