A Hemingway Odyssey: Special Places in His Life
H. Lea Lawrence
Includes Hemingway's 1924 short story "Big Two-Hearted River."
Ernest Hemingway often insisted that any good story includes three elements: the time, the place, and how the weather was. A Hemingway Odyssey includes all three and much more.
A must-read for Hemingway enthusiasts in the centennial year of his birth, A Hemingway Odyssey contains never-before-published interviews with people who knew him and observations of the special places he frequented, thus revealing how powerfully the waters Hemingway loved influenced his writing from his earliest days to his last novels.
This unique approach to Hemingway's life sets it apart from the work of other biographers. Beginning with Hemingway's initiation into the outdoors at his family's cabin in Lake Walloon in upper Michigan, the book recreates his experiences in Europe, Key West, Cuba and the Caribbean, and the American West. Numerous photographs put readers in touch with his life, particularly with the waters where he loved to fifsh, from rushing trout streams to the Gulf Stream.
Here are the people who gathered around him, such as Maxwell Perkins and John Dos Passos. Here also is the work in which he was engaged at each step of the journey, the women in his life, and his legendary fishing exploits, whether with the giant billfish of the Caribbean or the mountain trout of Wyoming. A Hemingway Odyssey will please and enlighten anyone who loves a good read.
"[Lawrence's] descriptions of Hemingway's old stomping grounds could make any reader want to take up fly fishing...You don't have to be an outdoorsman to appreciate this biography, but it may inspire you to become one." —Bookpage
"Making a connection between his fishing exploits and some of what many consider to be the deceased author's best writing, H. Lea Lawrence in A Hemingway Odyssey offers a sort of biographical travelogue in which he retraces Hemingway's footsteps to some of the special places in his life." —Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.
| H. LEA LAWRENCE is a freelance writer whose articles have appeared in more than fifty magazines, including Audubon, Field & Stream, and Natural Wildlife. His other writings include The Fly Fisherman's Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He lives in Franklin, Tennessee. |
$12.95, Paperback
ISBN-10: 1-58182-024-0 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-024-9 (Paperback)
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