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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • National Bestseller • A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood.

"Hendrickson’s two strongest gifts—that compassion and his research and reporting prowess—combine to masterly effect.” —Arthur Phillips,
The New York Times Book Review

Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide—Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat,
Pilar.

Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity—to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.
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“I read [Hemingway’s Boat] without a pause. . . . [It’s] a biography that is at once admiring and devastating, and full of material that I wouldn’t have thought even existed and of people who knew Hemingway whom I’d never heard of—an eye opener of a book, full of unexpected riches, fascinating digressions, and leaving one at the end wishing the book were longer, and thinking long and hard about the price of fame and success in America, and the dangers of seemingly getting everything you wanted out of life—it just may be the best book I’ve read this year, and certainly the best book I’ve read about an American writer in a long, long time.” —Michael Korda, Newsweek Favorite Books 2011
 
“A lyrical and expansive search for the essence of a famous writer—heart, soul, and hull.” —Julia Keller,
Chicago Tribune Top Picks of 2011
 
“The author, an accomplished storyteller, interprets myriad tiny details of Ernest Hemingway’s life, and through them says something new about a writer everyone thinks they know.” —
The Economist Books of the Year 2011
 
“Hendrickson’s engrossing book offers a fresh slant on the rise and fall of a father figure of American literature.”  —S
an Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2011
 
“There’s never been a biography quite like this one. . . . The stories are rich with contradiction and humanity, and so raw and immediate you can smell the salt air.” —
Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011: The Top 10
 
“Rich and enthralling . . . Paul Hendrickson is a deeply informed and inspired guide. He often appears in the first person, addressing the reader and exhorting him or her to speculate, imagine, or feel. He has researched exhaustively, been to the places Hemingway frequented, and talked to whoever was part of or had a connection to the Hemingway days. His diligence and spirit are remarkable. It is like traveling with an irrepressible talker who may go off on tangents but never loses the power to amaze. . . .
Hemingway’s Boat is a book written with the virtuosity of a novelist, hagiographic in the right way, sympathetic, assiduous, and imaginative. It does not rival the biographies but rather stands brilliantly beside them—the sea, Key West, Cuba, all the places, the life he had and gloried in. His commanding personality comes to life again in these pages, his great charm and warmth as well as his egotism and aggression.” —James Salter, The New York Review of Books
 
“Large-minded [and] rigorously fair. . . . An indispensable document. . . . With this sterling summation of the entire Hemingway canon, Hendrickson shows what has eluded some very able scholars. A writer’s life can contain two conflicting existences, one of purely original genius and one of irreversible destructiveness. It’s a lucky genius who gets credit for the first and a free pass on the second. Hendrickson issues no free pass to Papa. He gives the ravaged old man something more honest: a fair summing-up of a life like no other.” —Howell Raines,
The Washington Post
 
“A rich book and a wandering one. . . .
Hemingway’s Boat is about Hemingway, about what was good in him and what was bad, about what brought a man who took pleasure in so much to the point where he could take his own life. It is about the joy he spread and the infection he carried. . . . For Hendrickson, discovering just how unhappy and unsettled Hemingway was for so long makes him more of a hero. He states his case persuasively, which is why this book is so good.” —Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal
 
“Heartbreaking . . .
Hemingway’s Boat includes some of the most moving, beautiful pieces of biography I have ever read. . . . In the best of these streaming ‘other lives’ . . . Hendrickson’s two strongest gifts—that compassion and his research and reporting prowess—combine to masterly effect.”  —Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review
 
“Brilliant. . . . Through painstaking reporting, through conscientious sifting of the evidence, and most of all, through vivid, heartfelt, luminous writing, Hendrickson gets to the heart of both Hemingway and his world. . . . Hendrickson writes sentences that seem lit from within—but not in a showy way. Rather, they glow with the yearning of the humble seeker, the diligent observer who understands that we’ll never get to the end of the Hemingway story—yet we have to start somewhere.” —Julia Keller,
Chicago Tribune
 
Glorious. . . . A copious, mystical portrait. . . . [Pilar] proves that there just might be one more way of telling Papa’s story. . . . Hendrickson handles her like the relic she is, and makes of her a cunning, capable metaphor for Hemingway’s contradictory drives . . . Hendrickson fills in the negative space exuberantly. He imagines each scene completely, and then imagines himself into it. The book becomes a participatory biography—the details are rendered with a hallucinatory intensity . . . This big-hearted book leaves us with a litany of sorrows, but also images of grace: of heroism in Gigi’s muddled final moments; of tenderness and lucidity in Hemingway’s paranoid last days; and of Pilar and her promise of escape, renewal, and the open sea.” —Parul Sehgal, Cleveland Plain-Dealer
 
“The most honest and honestly excellent prose about Papa Hemingway to date . . . Hendrickson’s quirky, compelling, and compassionate biography of a literary lion slants great.” —Linda Elisabeth Beattie,
Louisville Courier-Journal
 
“This unfailingly intelligent meditation on the achievement of genius and the corrosion of fame brings a man we thought we knew to life in a wholly different light.” —
Newsweek
 
“[
Pilar is a] brilliant conceit. . . . No wan symbol or factitious theory [serves] as blinkered Virgil, but instead a tactile, intensely documented, sensual, action-crammed vessel that [carries] a rich cargo of story. . . . The utilitarian yet graceful lines of Pilar form a sturdy armature for the sculpture of Hemingway that Hendrickson hews from the marble of history in Hemingway’s Boat. Thanks to Hendrickson’s insights, his laborious research, and his sturdy, cannily wrought, often lyrical prose, the famed novelist comes alive again in uncluttered, fresh dimensions, vividly at the helm of his boat once more.” —Paul Di Filippo, The Barnes & Noble Review
 
“An often lyrical mélange of biography, lit-crit meditation and straight reportage . . . Hendrickson delves deep into the margins, running down fascinating profiles of a handful of characters who had been treated like bit players in earlier works and searching for renewed significance in some episodes that had previously been relegated to footnotes. . . . Smart and lovingly crafted, a worthy addition.” —Larry Lebowitz,
Miami Herald
 
“This may be the great Hemingway book of the past twenty years. It gives us, at long last, the New Hemingway we’ve needed. We are persuaded that, at long last, we have somehow encountered Hemingway whole—apparition and monster, buffoon and barbarian, literary titan and pretender, macho man and soft-hearted benefactor, and above all, the great artist wrestling with anxieties that are secret gifts and advantages that were vicious impediments. . . . [Hendrickson is] so attentive to detail that he will notice the polish on a woman’s nails, but, at the same time, so intuitive that he can neutralize some of the oldest toxins flowing through the bloodstream of Hemingway’s life narrative.” —Jeff Simon,
Buffalo News
 
“Writing with stylistic verve, great heart and profound insight, Paul Hendrickson gives us a fresh way to understand one of the most written-about, fascinating characters in American letters. . . . Hendrickson doesn’t reveal Hemingway’s life as much as he illuminates it with his characteristic passion and intelligence, in a great match of biographer and subject.” —Elizabeth Taylor,
Chicago Tribune
 
“Paul Hendrickson wrote
Hemingway’s Boat almost as a rebuke to the many conflicting Hemingway biographies and ‘daffy critical studies.’ If he could ground a narrative in something that existed and still exists, that Hemingway loved, if he could learn about such a treasured possession, then maybe he could learn something about Hemingway, too. He does, in spades, and so do Hendrickson’s lucky readers. . . . Captivating.” —Roger K. Miller, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
 
“Engrossing. . . . Movingly told . . .
Hemingway’s Boat brings a commanding personality—and all the fears and insecurities that came with it—brilliantly to life side by side with the lives of minor characters, neglected witnesses who have their own stories to tell.” —J. Malcolm Garcia, The Kansas City Star
 
“Inspired. . . . Enthralling. . . . Hendrickson writes so well that every page is a pleasure to absorb.” —Steve Weinberg,
The Christian Science Monitor
 
“Hendrickson’s innovative writing and approach make for a book that is both delightful and profound.” —
Choice
 
“Less a biography than a deeply reported, achingly considered meditative essay, Hemingway’s Boat covers a vast amount of territory in the life of the mythic, difficult-to-understand Papa, all of it coming back in some way to Hemingway’s beloved 38-foot, two-engine, ocean-plying Pilar. Fishing, fatherhood, manhood, writing, the infinite pull of the Gulf Stream—these constitute only the starting point of Hendrickson’s sympathetic, illuminating wanderings . . . Hendrickson’s book is filled with intensity, humanity, and more.” —Starred review,
Booklist
 
“Splendid . . . A moving, highly evocative account . . . Seven years in the making, this vivid portrait allows us to see Hemingway on the Pilar once again, standing on the flying bridge and guiding her out of the harbor at sunrise. Appearing on the 50th anniversary of Hemingway’s death, this beautifully written, nuanced meditation deserves a wide audience.” —Starred review,
Kirkus
 
 “Admirably absorbing, important, and moving . . . Poignant . . . Acutely sensitive to his subject’s volatile, ‘gratuitously mean’ personality, Hendrickson offers fascinating details and sheds new light on Hemingway’s kinder, more generous side.” —Starred review, Publishers Weekly
 
 “Unique. . . . Hendrickson has come neither to praise nor bury his subject, but to give him a fair shot. . . . Featuring spry writing and clever insight but thankfully little critical analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s work (that’s been done to death), Hendrickson brings fresh meat to the table, delivering one of the most satisfying Hemingway assessments in many years. A delight for Ernesto’s numerous fans.” Starred review,
Library Journal
 
“Complex but clear and easy to follow . . . With fresh information and insights, [Hemingway’s Boat] adds significantly—as many other books have not—to what we know about a complicated and great American writer.” —Clyde Edgerton,
Garden & Gun
 
Hemingway's Boat is Paul Hendrickson at his peak, which is as good as it gets. I've not read a book in years that struck me so deeply paragraph after paragraph, page after page, chapter after chapter—the writing, research, sensibility, honesty, sadness and guts to steer Pilar and Hemingway down so many unexplored and revelatory ocean streams.”  —David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi 
 
“The complex life of a deservedly renowned, brilliantly energetic storyteller is here told with knowing sensitivity, and remarkably, without resort to the mannerisms of the psychiatric clinic or to the various canons of the literary and educational worlds. In a sense, Paul Hendrickson, an essayist and skilled documentary writer, himself builds Hemingway’s boat, sees its practical and metaphorical significance to a novelist who struggled mightily, sometimes with success, sometimes with failure, to navigate life’s challenging hurdles, obstacles, opportunities, as they came his way, wave after wave of them, in his boldly, bravely original, yet often melancholy effort to stay afloat, keep on top of things as a writer, husband, father.” —Robert Coles, author of
Children of Crisis: A Study of Courage and Fear
 
“Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about Papa, along comes
Hemingway's Boat. Paul Hendrickson proposes that the thirty-eight-foot motor yacht Pilar was the true love of Hemingway's life, and from this slant angle manages to bring the revered and reviled author of ‘The Snows of Kilamanjaro’ back to life for us once again.” —Jay McInerney, author of How It Ended: New and Collected Stories
 
“Paul Hendrickson is the most innovative and creative nonfiction writer I know. Just read
Hemingway's Boat and you'll see what I mean. He has an almost saintly compassion for both the greatness and the foibles of Hemingway, and he brings the reader directly into Papa's sultry Cuban lair like never before. A landmark publishing event.” —Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge
 

About the Author

Paul Hendrickson’s previous book, Sons of Mississippi, won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Since 1998 he has been on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Pennsylvania. For two decades before that he was a staff writer at The Washington Post. Among his other books are Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott (1992 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Living and the Dead: Robert McNamara and Five Lives of a Lost War (1996 finalist for the National Book Award). He has been the recipient of writing fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lyndhurst Foundation, and the Alicia Patterson Foundation. In 2009 he was a joint visiting professor of documentary practice at Duke University and of American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the father of two grown sons and lives with his wife, Cecilia, outside Philadelphia.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (July 24, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 704 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1400075351
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1400075355
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.44 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1.52 x 7.91 inches
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Customers find the book engaging and well-researched. They appreciate the insights into the Hemingway family and backstories. The writing quality is described as vivid and well-written. Readers enjoy the storytelling and the gripping tale. The style is described as realistic and fresh, providing a fresh look at an over-examined man. The personality is described as human and interesting.

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55 customers mention "Insight"44 positive11 negative

Customers enjoy the book's insights into the Hemingway family and backstories of characters. They appreciate the author's excellent research and photos. While some readers find the book engrossing, others find it confusing at times. Overall, the book provides revealing analyses of the author's life and obsessions.

"...sensitivity toward all of its subjects, and understands just how complex and contradictory Hemingway, and all of those who populate his story, are...." Read more

"...he remains a literary force and an icon. This book brings some very interesting and original perspectives to the legend and the very human person..." Read more

"...Again, the author has done excellent research, provides some wonderful photos, and for the most part, stitches it all together quite skillfully...." Read more

"...and his experiences with his boat turn out to be an excellent vehicle for gaining a more human and realistic look at this enigmatic character...." Read more

50 customers mention "Readability"50 positive0 negative

Customers find the book well-researched and engaging. They say it's a great read for anyone interested in Hemingway, his life, loves, and mythology.

"This is an extraordinary book, unlike most books about authors in both form and in aspiration...." Read more

"...A good read. I bought another copy to give to a friend who recently began reading Hemingway." Read more

"...This is an amazing book, much better than any other Hemingway biography. Inspired." Read more

"Hemingway's Boat is a good book and a true book and also a strange and disturbing book...." Read more

26 customers mention "Writing quality"24 positive2 negative

Customers praise the writing quality of the book. They find the prose vivid and well-written. The author is described as a talented writer and an icon.

"...All of this is presented in remarkably vivid prose that makes the sea and Havana and the Pilar and that awful moment in Ketchum fully present...." Read more

"...Love him, or hate him. he remains a literary force and an icon...." Read more

"...Yet there is instruction in his writing, his manic reductive editing which can transform the discursive and telegraphic prose we see in his letters..." Read more

"...on pages 457 and 458, and it sums up Hendrickson's view of the great American writer...." Read more

19 customers mention "Storytelling"15 positive4 negative

Customers find the storytelling engaging and thorough. They appreciate the stories about Hemingway's time on the sea and how his time with Pilar decreased. The book provides stark contrasts to key aspects of the story, making it poignant and sad.

"...The whole tale is gripping, and the insights this tale provides about Hemingway's fiction are deep and at times revelatory..." Read more

"...For the most part, this is a respectful, though not fawning telling of the tale. A good read...." Read more

"...Particularly poignant and sad are the particulars from Hemmingway's own sons...." Read more

"...complaint is that toward the end of the wirter's life the story seems to side track and focus too much on Gregory, one of Hemmingway's children...." Read more

13 customers mention "Style"13 positive0 negative

Customers find the book's style realistic and helpful for understanding the character. They appreciate the excellent research, wonderful photos, and fresh perspective on an over-examined man.

"...Again, the author has done excellent research, provides some wonderful photos, and for the most part, stitches it all together quite skillfully...." Read more

"One of our finest non-fiction stylists tackles Hemingway's world and its wonderful culture...." Read more

"...This too is an excellent and probably more realistic way to see Hemmingway through the eyes of others who were not rivals and/or other writers...." Read more

"Hendrickson knows how to write. Stylish work. I bought this book on a recommendation...." Read more

8 customers mention "Personality"8 positive0 negative

Customers find the book a good way to explore Hemingway's personality. They describe him as an interesting and intelligent man with unmatched male insight. The book portrays him sympathetically, amiable, helpful, and humble.

"...very interesting and original perspectives to the legend and the very human person who inspired it...." Read more

"...includes incidents that portray him as a friend, amiable, helpful, sincere and even quite humble...." Read more

"...and interesting to read about this mysterious, interesting and intelligent man...." Read more

"...This is my first book about Hemingway. He was an interesting man with such a passion for writing and for the sea...." Read more

5 customers mention "Inspiration"5 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's inspiration. They find the culture and history of Key West fascinating. The Cuban lifestyle is also interesting.

"...finest non-fiction stylists tackles Hemingway's world and its wonderful culture...." Read more

"...The Cuban lifestyle was fascinating as were the details and history of Pilar...." Read more

"a great American brilliance utterly alive & alone, never undone . EH "bit the horn" exited defiant and triumphant...." Read more

"...As a fan of Hemingway, this is my favorite bio." Read more

19 customers mention "Entertainment value"8 positive11 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the book's entertainment value. Some find it relaxing and engaging, with no dull moments. Others describe it as boring, disappointing, and frustrating.

"...EH is not lovable, the ego-driven profanity of his slaughter of animals, his bullying, his convenient values will test many modern readers...." Read more

"...of going overboard on the boat details, is equally relaxing and entertaining for those fond and even not so fond of Ernest Hemmingway." Read more

"...This is a frustrating read, the author goes backwards and forward so many times you forget where you are...." Read more

"...Well written, never a dull moment. I highly recommend it, even if you have never read any of Hemingway's works...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012
    This is an extraordinary book, unlike most books about authors in both form and in aspiration. Hendrikson says that he hoped to provide not a biography but an "evocation and interpretation" of Hemingway the man and his works, and in this Hendrikson succeeds brilliantly. He does so not by focusing exclusively on his subject but also on people touched by Hemingway, including some who readers might think minor characters but who in fact provide unique glimpses of Hemingway (and who are interesting in their own right). Also, Hendrikson fortunately does not shrink from putting himself into his account as he has a great deal of wisdom to bring to the subject. The book is the result of enormous research, displays great sensitivity toward all of its subjects, and understands just how complex and contradictory Hemingway, and all of those who populate his story, are. All of this is presented in remarkably vivid prose that makes the sea and Havana and the Pilar and that awful moment in Ketchum fully present. Of course, that the book covers a period of Hemingway's life in which he declined makes it especially poignant: all that enormous energy finally expelled leaving him muddled and depressed. The whole tale is gripping, and the insights this tale provides about Hemingway's fiction are deep and at times revelatory (for example, what appears to be his perhaps unconscious desire to be a woman in this, the supposedly most masculine of writers). It's clear that Hendrikson loved his subject and loved writing about him, and this love is infectious. I have read few books about an author that capture its subject so vibrantly and so insightfully and with such great sympathy. It made me realize again the nature of Hemingway's achievements, as well as what was truly awful and also truly noble about the man who produced them. All in all this was a marvelous reading experience; I highly recommend the book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2014
    Have been reading Hemingway ( I dislike that whole " Papa " business ) ever since high school and have read many books about him. There is a real " Hemingway Industry, " of people who never knew the man ( and more than a few relatives ) making a good living and reputation writing about him. Love him, or hate him. he remains a literary force and an icon. This book brings some very interesting and original perspectives to the legend and the very human person who inspired it. For the most part, this is a respectful, though not fawning telling of the tale. A good read. I bought another copy to give to a friend who recently began reading Hemingway.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2012
    So much has been written about Ernest Hemmingway by students, scholars, pundits, reporters, critics, family members, ex-wives, psychoanalysts and just about anyone else who either knew him or read his work. This giant of a writer and exceedingly complex man seems to have fascinated so many. Now it seems that even his fishing boat, Pilar, is a source of fascination.

    In this book, the author delves into absolute minutiae regarding this vessel proving without a doubt that he is capable of extensive and accurate research.

    However, no matter how much detail the author includes, the boat is just not as compelling as Hemmingway himself. The characters from Hemmingway's life that were in some way connected to the boat are also far more interesting. Each individual reflects a specific relationship with Hemmingway that was special and meaningful. The author carefully explores these relationships, draws many parallels, includes many details and examines evidence from various sources. Particularly poignant and sad are the particulars from Hemmingway's own sons. It is through all these individuals that the author paints a portrait of Hemmingway that doesn't pull any punches yet renders him sympathetically. The author brings up Hemmingway's many faults and boorishness but he also includes incidents that portray him as a friend, amiable, helpful, sincere and even quite humble. Hemmingway comes across less as an idol and more of a very real human.

    Again, the author has done excellent research, provides some wonderful photos, and for the most part, stitches it all together quite skillfully. He shows that Hemmingway loved being out on his boat chasing big game fish and sharing this experience with others. Pilar and the ocean were undoubtedly a source of relaxation and entertainment for Hemmingway that the reader wishes lasted even longer than it did. This book, in spite of going overboard on the boat details, is equally relaxing and entertaining for those fond and even not so fond of Ernest Hemmingway.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
    One of our finest non-fiction stylists tackles Hemingway's world and its wonderful culture. This is an amazing book, much better than any other Hemingway biography. Inspired.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2011
    Hemingway's Boat is a good book and a true book and also a strange and disturbing book.

    Okay, enough of the bad Hemingway imitation.

    Fact is, Paul Hendrickson's book is badly named. It's not really about Hemingway's boat, Pilar. It's more about the subtitle, Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961.

    After a promising start, Henrickson veers away from Pilar and does a series of chapters on tangential characters that Henrickson apparently felt offered rich and previously little reported source material -- Arnold Samuelson, Walter Hauk and one of Hemingway's sons, Gigi, a sad, cross-dressing, eventually transgendered failure at medicine and everything else he tried.

    The last half of the book is a mish-mash on Hemingway's personal decline and his alienation from his three sons, former wives and ex-friends and from many of the things, like fishing and hunting, that he had long loved.

    Do we really need more of this sort of thing?

    If nothing else, Hemingway's Boat will drive you back to Hemingway's novels and short stories.
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  • Helen Musson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2024
    Brilliant!
  • Évariste
    5.0 out of 5 stars fashinating lifestyle
    Reviewed in Italy on February 17, 2020
    it's not Always true what appears first..
  • paul herriott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book.
    Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2016
    Great Book...have been at the "Finca de Vigia" near Habana and drank rum and chatted with Gregorio Fuentes @ "Village of Cojimar" Habana.
    Big Hemingway devotee'here/////Paul Herriott
  • Ugo
    1.0 out of 5 stars Libro interessante, ma...giunto dopo ben venti giorni e mio reclamo-
    Reviewed in Italy on July 2, 2023
    Interessante il libro, ma giunto dopo ben venti giorni e mio reclamo, consegna non al richiesto Amazon hub ma a casa, prezzo maggiorato rispetto a quanto preventivato nel modulo di acquisto. Molto male, rispetto ai soliti positivi standard di consegna! Pronta e volonterosa comunque l'assistenza dell'addetta Maria Chiara.
  • Kevin dale
    5.0 out of 5 stars You can feel the atmosphere of the man.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 27, 2019
    Great book l have read it before when it first came out and wanted to read it again very good discription of Ernest Hemingway and his fishing boat feels like your there along with the man i would highly recommend it to fans and non fans alike.