Ernest Hemingway A Life Story Author:Carlos Baker If Ernest Hemingway is to be made to live again, it must be by virtue of a thousand pictures, both still and moving, a thousand scenes is which he was involved, a thousand instances when he wrote or spoke both publicly and privately of those matters that most concerned him. The small boy who shouted "Fraid o'nothing" became the man who discovere... more »d that there was plenty to fear, including that vast cosmic nothingness which Goya named Nada. The adolescent, wounded in Italy, learned that no man was exempt from mortality. The romantic activist, the center and in many ways the originator of his own universe, became the pragmatic moralist whose leading aim was to find out how to live in life, how to last and (having lasted) hos to convert a carefully cultivated stoical fortitude into the stuff of which his fictional heroes were made. The ethecal hedonist sought and found a million pleasures while learning, over and over, that human life, his own included, is forever punctuated with pain. Il faut(d'abord)durer became his watchword as well as the rule by which he lived until the concept of lasting gave way to an overriding conviction that it was time for him to die. See Amazon.com paperback version for 5 star reviews. This book includes picture. Book jacket is torn. ASHN: b000h9oyag« less
A fascinating study of a complicated, supremely interesting life using indisputable documentation mainly in the form of correspondence. A page turner, for sure!