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Almost Hemingway - The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent (Hardcover)
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Almost Hemingway - The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent (Hardcover)
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Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of
Ernest Hemingway's who, in his romantic questing and
hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the
Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway
relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast,
best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic
who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway,
Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected
Hemingway's in ways that compelled writers for publications as
divergent as the Guardian and Field & Stream to compare them.
Unlike Hemingway, however, Farson has been forgotten. This
high-flying and literate biography recovers Farson's life in its
multifaceted details, from his time as an arms dealer to Czarist
Russia during World War I, to his firsthand reporting on Hitler and
Mussolini, to his assignment in India, where he broke the news of
Gandhi's arrest by the British, to his excursion to Kenya a few
years before the Mau Mau Uprising. Farson also found the time to
publish an autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, which made him
an international publishing sensation in 1936, as well as Going
Fishing, one of the most enduring of all outdoors books. F. Scott
Fitzgerald, a fellow member of the Lost Generation whose art
competed with a public image grander than reality, once confessed
that while he had to rely on his imagination, Farson could simply
draw from his own event-filled life. Almost Hemingway is the
definitive window on that remarkable story.
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