Ernest hemingway a life story by carlos baker
Ernest Hemingway; a life story : Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987 ....
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Hemingway: a Life Story
August 29, 2014
Because I’m a son of a bitch. -- Ernest Hemingway, late 1926.
Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year or so).How to write a life story Ernest Hemingway; a life story : Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987 ... Ernest Hemingway: a life story : Baker, Carlos, 1909-1987 ... Ernest Hemingway: A life story by Carlos Baker | Goodreads
Truly. The Hemingway that emerges in Carlos Baker’s mammoth (714 pages of small print, excluding notes) is virtually impossible to like, or even – it seems -- to pity (though that changes when it comes to his last feeble year or so).
The four wives (Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary), the blown up marriages, the blown up friendships, the drunken arguments, the literary knifings, are all here. I don’t sense any attempt by Baker to pull punches, though I'm sure later biographies have unearthed some real whoppers.
Ernest hemingway a life story by carlos baker
In other words Baker has no axe to grind, but dutifully assembles the stuff (as in everything) of Hemingway’s life and records it – with a tone that is neutrally sympathetic -- in chronological fashion. On occasion Baker will linger over a piece of writing, and add some thoughtful insights, but never for more than a few lines, or a paragraph.
Generally this is not a lite