Ernest Hemingway created a style of writing that captivated a generation. Owing as much to music as it did to literature, it had a tonality that resonated like a drumbeat. Its hypnotic, incantatory nature was birthed under the mentoring eyes of Gertrude Stein and James Joyce during his literary apprenticeship and buffeted with the journalistic machismo of the hard-living, hard-drinking man of action he became afterwards. Despite the acres of words that have been written by and about him, Hemingway continues to elude biographers with his complexity. His first wife, Hadley Richardson, said he was more complex than geometry. Aubrey Malone captures him in all his guises here-from boxer to braggart, hunter to hero, fisherman to 'dangerous' friend. In the end, when he bagged his last trophy with a self-administered bullet to the head, he went against the 'grace under pressure' credo that had defined him for so much of his life. 'Ernest Hemingway: Flawed Genius' investigates the man behind the myth, a writer who was a mystery even to himself.
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This is an account of the life of barnstorming author Ernest Hemingway. Aubrey Malone has immersed himself in recent research to discover what led the author through a tumultuous personal life to the psychological collapse of his final years.
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Introduction; Beginnings; Two Parts of the One Person; Published Author; Forging a Style; Climbing the Literary Ladder; The Perils of Pauline; King of the Fiction Racket; Frightened Angel; New Pastures; Green Hills of Africa; The Bell Tolls for Pauline; Prisoner of Fame; Two Writers in the Family; Pocket Rubens; The Explainers; Back to Basics; Black Ass; From Cuba to Ketchum; Aftermath; The Man Behind the Myth; Epilogue; Endnotes; Bibliography.
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ISBN
9781781559352
Publisert
2025-03-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Fonthill Media Ltd
Vekt
575 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
288

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Biographical note

Born in the west of Ireland, Aubrey Malone was educated at University College, Dublin, graduating with a BA in English and philosophy. He followed this with an MA in English, in which he majored in the literary style of Ernest Hemingway. Malone was a teacher for ten years, before becoming a freelance journalist with various newspapers and magazines. He has written over fifty books, including the best-selling 'The Cynic's Dictionary' (Prion). He works predominantly in non-fiction, though he has published two novels and a few collections of poetry and short stories. This is his second biography of Hemingway, his first having been published by Robson Books in 1999.