{"product_id":"ernest-hemingway-9780271075341","title":"Ernest Hemingway","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA biography of Ernest Hemingway that places his life and art in the defining contexts of the women and places that were important to him, and the pattern of mental illness and suicide in his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The best single-volume Hemingway biography now available. Summing up: Essential.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—S. Miller \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Toward the end of James J. Hutchisson’s deftly written biography of Ernest Hemingway, we are reminded to ‘remember how difficult it was for him to be “Ernest Hemingway.”’ That’s something no reader of this well-researched book is likely to forget. Chapter after chapter, we see Hemingway in splendid complication as both the man and the artist.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Sibbie O'Sullivan \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Written in graceful, jargon-free prose, this compact biography will appeal broadly to general readers, students, and scholars.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—William Gargan \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Lovingly detailed. . . . Hutchisson celebrates Hemingway’s many career triumphs, but pays at least as much attention to his troubles.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Robert Fulford \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hutchisson has done the impossible: He has made an original contribution to the literature about the most written-about author in American letters.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ron Capshaw \u003ci\u003eNational Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A perception exists that everything we need to know about the author of \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Moveable Feast\u003c\/i\u003e (among so many other great works) has been said ad infinitum. James M. Hutchisson’s \u003ci\u003eErnest Hemingway: A New Life\u003c\/i\u003e proves how untrue that thought is. Nearly thirty years after a revisionary wave of biographies reimagined the man, Hutchisson arrives to reset the scales once more, giving us a fuller, more nuanced portrait than we’ve ever enjoyed. Every generation deserves its own Hemingway, and this is ours.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Kirk Curnutt,board member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society and author of \u003ci\u003eReading Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not”: Glosses and Commentary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A work of mature judgment and rigorous scholarship, lucidly, often elegantly written.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Matthew Stewart \u003ci\u003eAmerican Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Building on newly available letters and other sources, this first new Hemingway biography in twenty years probes the author’s complicated relationships with his family, mentors, wives—and other women. Readers will appreciate this documented account of Hemingway’s fascinating life; those familiar with earlier biographies will find much fresh material in this accessible volume.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ellen Andrews Knodt,Pennsylvania State University, Abington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eErnest Hemingway: A New Life\u003c\/i\u003e marks a refreshing change in approach. With the exception of Michael Reynolds’s multivolume biography, biographers since Carlos Baker have viewed Hemingway through various limited critical perspectives, resulting in life stories that differ markedly from one another. James Hutchisson’s \u003ci\u003eA New Life\u003c\/i\u003e offers an unbiased view of a complex personality.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Robert E. Fleming,author of \u003ci\u003eThe Face in the Mirror: Hemingway’s Writers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Like a masterful visual artist who takes a familiar subject and makes it fresh and interesting, James Hutchisson gives us an original and compelling biographical portrait of Ernest Hemingway. By examining patterns in Hemingway's life and providing additional context, Hutchisson enables us to see aspects of the writer’s life and art in a new light. The result is a balanced (if somewhat more sympathetic) view of Hemingway and a worthy counterpoint to previous biographies.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ruth Hawkins,author of \u003ci\u003eUnbelievable Happiness and Final Sorrow: The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Marriage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the first Hemingway biography in two decades, Hutchisson draws on recent scholarship, newly available family and medical histories, and expanded editions of posthumous works to craft a balanced and lucid treatment of Hemingway that deftly charts his spatial and sexual geographies. Hutchisson remains attuned to the patterns in Hemingway’s life without sacrificing Hemingway’s complexity. He probes Hemingway’s contradictions without seeking to resolve them. This biography offers an invaluable aid to scholars of the frequently misunderstood late and posthumous works by examining Hemingway’s continuing efforts to transcend the boundaries of the styles and forms his critics had come to expect. This portrait of Hemingway shows a writer who never ceased to evolve.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Julieann Veronica Ulin,Florida Atlantic University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hutchisson is extremely good at describing the demons that rode [Hemingway] and the suffering they caused him, and he strikes an admirable balance between excuse and generous empathy that culminates in his treatment of Hemingway’s final desperate act early on the morning of July 2, 1961.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Chilton Williamson \u003ci\u003eChronicles: A Magazine of American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tThe Midwest: Childhood and Youth\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tItaly and Agnes von Kurowsky\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tMichigan, Chicago, and Hadley\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tParis\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tDuff Twysden and \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\tPauline, Key West, and \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tSpain and \u003ci\u003eDeath in the Afternoon\u003c\/i\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tJane Mason and Africa\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\tMartha Gellhorn and the Spanish Civil War\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tCuba and \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11\tChina and World War II\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\tMary, Adriana, and \u003ci\u003eAcross the River and into the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13\tRevisiting the Past: Africa and Paris\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14\tDangerous Summers: Spain, Cuba, Idaho\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\t\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400795890007,"sku":"9780271075341","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ernest-hemingway-9780271075341","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}