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Hemingway's boat everything he loved in life, and lost, 1934-1961

Hendrickson, Paul more...

Format: Hardback
Library Classification: Adult Non Fiction
BIC Subjects: Biography & autobiography
Publisher: Vintage
Imprint: The Bodley Head Ltd
Publication Date: 16/02/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom

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A man who let who let his own insides get eaten out by the diseases of fame had dreamed new books on this boat. He'd taught his sons to reel in something that feels like Moby Dick on this boat. He'd accidentally shot himself in both legs on this boat. He'd fallen drunk from the flying bridge on this boat. He'd written achy, generous, uplifting, poetic letters on this boat. He'd propositioned women on this boat. He'd hunted German subs on this boat. He'd saved guests and family members from shark attack on this boat. He'd acted like a bully on this boat. She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her. She wasn't a figment or a dream or a literary theory or somebody's psychosexual interpretation - she was actual.