{"product_id":"hemingway-in-love-9781447299912","title":"Hemingway in Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over more than a decade.\u003cbr\u003eIn characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway revealed to Hotchner the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic life in Paris and how he lost Hadley, the true part of each literary woman he'd later create and the great love he spent the rest of his life seeking. And he told of the mischief that made him a legend: of impotence cured in a house of God; of a plane crash in the African bush, from which Hemingway stumbled with a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin in hand; of F. Scott Fitzgerald dispensing romantic advice and champagne in the buff with Josephine Baker; of adventure, human \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this piercingly intimate new volume, A. E. Hotchner plumbs the depths of Hemingway's most poignant realizations and regrets - not just whom he loved and ultimately lost, but the very nature of his heart. A tender and devastating portrait...and one I will personally treasure -- Paula McLain, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Wife\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Hotchner is a natural storyteller, and it has been our good fortune that among his friends and acquaintances are bullfighters, glamorous women, talented actors, painters, poets, and interesting poseurs - people who attract and enlighten readers. \u003ci\u003eHemingway in Love\u003c\/i\u003e is the crowning achievement in Hotchner's lifetime study of Hemingway, and I admire it immensely -- Gay Talese\u003cbr\u003eThe first complete understanding of the writer as a man...an important book -- \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003eA portrait of triumphant highs, melancholic lows, and the pervading tone of the subject's generation-a human being's love lost -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHotchner tells an engaging and harrowing story. . .offers us something of a 'behind the scenes' glimpse at how Hemingway was processing his past, and dealing with the lingering trauma of regret, physical pain, and his deteriorating creative ability. . .The final years of Hemingway's life have never been told with such eloquence and compassion * PopMatters *\u003cbr\u003eA. E. Hotchner's Hemingway in Love is a poignant postscript to A Moveable Feast. . .a book of elegiac charm * BookPage *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408482050391,"sku":"9781447299912","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781447299912.jpg?v=1730503063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/hemingway-in-love-9781447299912","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}