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Looking for Hemingway
The Lost Generation and the Final Rite of Passage
«My longtime friend and virtual brother Tony Castro came to know this special time and place of Hemingway’s life in Spain and with my family and our home La Consula in the south of Spain as if he’d been there. And he has fabulously recreated it in Looking for Hemingway, a brilliant book of incredible scope and powerful insight into the man and myth that the world knew as Ernest Hemingway. I lived that time once, and I’ve relived it again here in these pages. This book is a treasure in understanding who Hemingway was and his indelible impact on the people whose lives he touched.»
Teo Davis, son of Bill and Annie Davis, Hemingway’s hosts in Spain
Named by Boston’s NPR News Station as one of the Best Books of 2016
In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s.
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Named by Boston’s NPR News Station as one of the Best Books of 2016
In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by.
Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain to write a new epilogue for his bullfighting classic Death in the Afternoon, as well as an article for Life magazine. His hosts were Bill and Anne Davis, wealthy Americans in pursuit of the avant-garde life of the 1920s’ post-war expatriates, who lavishly entertained celebrities and the literati, from Noel Coward to Laurence Olivier, at their historic villa, La Consula. This hacienda would become Hemingway’s home during the most pivotal months of the Nobel laureate’s denouement, and Bill Davis—fellow adventurer who had survived the Depression running arms during the Spanish Civil War—would become his friend and bullfight-traveling companion.
Looking for Hemingway explores that incredible friendship and offers a rare intimate look into the final period of the legendary author’s life, giving comprehension not only of a writer’s despair but of suicide as a not unreasonable conclusion to a blasted existence.
In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by.
Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain to write a new epilogue for his bullfighting classic Death in the Afternoon, as well as an article for Life magazine. His hosts were Bill and Anne Davis, wealthy Americans in pursuit of the avant-garde life of the 1920s’ post-war expatriates, who lavishly entertained celebrities and the literati, from Noel Coward to Laurence Olivier, at their historic villa, La Consula. This hacienda would become Hemingway’s home during the most pivotal months of the Nobel laureate’s denouement, and Bill Davis—fellow adventurer who had survived the Depression running arms during the Spanish Civil War—would become his friend and bullfight-traveling companion.
Looking for Hemingway explores that incredible friendship and offers a rare intimate look into the final period of the legendary author’s life, giving comprehension not only of a writer’s despair but of suicide as a not unreasonable conclusion to a blasted existence.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- The Lyons Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781493041954
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«My longtime friend and virtual brother Tony Castro came to know this special time and place of Hemingway’s life in Spain and with my family and our home La Consula in the south of Spain as if he’d been there. And he has fabulously recreated it in Looking for Hemingway, a brilliant book of incredible scope and powerful insight into the man and myth that the world knew as Ernest Hemingway. I lived that time once, and I’ve relived it again here in these pages. This book is a treasure in understanding who Hemingway was and his indelible impact on the people whose lives he touched.»
Teo Davis, son of Bill and Annie Davis, Hemingway’s hosts in Spain
«I had no idea there was so much still to be written about Hemingway. Tony Castro has found much gold left behind by the authors and scholars who came before him. At the start of a single chapter, I found anecdotes about Lauren Bacall, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hollywood that I’d never heard before – and I am an avid collector of such anecdotes. Looking for Hemingway is a different way of looking at Hemingway and should shape all our attitudes about the man and his work from here on in.»
Allen Barra, author of Mickey and Willie: The Parallel Lives of the Golden Age of Baseball
«Tony Castro's Looking for Hemingway is an intriguing glimpse into the life of the aging Ernest Hemingway in 1959, as he makes another trip to Spain and continues his decades-long fascination with bullfighting. In Castro’s lively yet poignant portrayal, Hemingway's glamorous 60th birthday party in his friends' beautiful villa contrasts with his efforts to recapture his youth. A worthwhile addition to the literature on Hemingway and his circle.»
Deborah Kalb, journalist and co-author of Haunting Legacy: Vietnam and the American Presidency from
«Ernest Hemingway was a great writer, a lousy husband, a braggart, and often treated his friends terribly. But as Tony Castro has written in Looking for Hemingway, the man fascinated the world from his birth to his death. Through Castro’s narrative, I got to meet Ava Gardner, Manolete, Picasso, Lauren Bacall, and Bill and Anne Davis, the couple that hosted EH for the last years of his life. Like one of Woody Allen’s movies, I was taken back to the era of the Lost Generation, and I loved every minute of it.»
Peter Golenbock, author of American Prince (with Tony Curtis) and Presumed Guilty (with Jose Baez.)
«Tony Castro has always brought a remarkable talent for inhabiting the very essence and spirit of his subjects, and the same is true in his new book, Looking for Hemingway. Castro seems to sense that Hemingway is acutely aware of his own impending mortality as he travels to Spain for one last hurrah. He has written a splendid and insightful account of that final journey.»
Bob Vickrey, syndicated columnist
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