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The Importance of Not Being Ernest (Hardcover)
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The Importance of Not Being Ernest (Hardcover)
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List price R633
Loot Price R576
Discovery Miles 5 760
You Save R57 (9%)
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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other"...illuminates his life
and works in ways not seen before." -Sigrid Nunez, National Book
Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going
Through #1 New Release in Historical Latin America Biographies
Discover Hemingway's biography through the eyes of a fellow author
and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark
Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway.
Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest
shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for
writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky's life has
always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway's legend, starting
with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway's death. The Importance of
Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway's and
Kurlansky's lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring
writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest
Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten
years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain-both cities
important to Hemingway's adventurous life and prolific writing.
Paris, Basque Country, Havana and Idaho. Get to know the
extraordinary people he met there-those who had also fallen under
the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the
same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway
look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting
and fishing. In this unique gift for writers, find: A memoir full
of entertaining and illuminative stories Little-known historical
facts about Hemingway's life Anecdotes about those who suffer from
what the Kurlansky calls "hemitis" Readers of Haruki Murakami's
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck's
Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love
The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
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