We Were the Bullfighters
Book description
“A window into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean prose.” — Lee Gowan, author of The Beautiful Place. Sent to cover bank robber Red Ryan’s daring prison break, a young Ernest Hemingway becomes fascinated with the convict.. In 1923, Ernest Hemingway, struggling with the responsibilities…
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Why read it?
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We Were the Bullfighters, based on Ernest Hemingway's four-month stint as a staff reporter at the Toronto Daily Star, is a masterful blend of fact and fiction. After researching Hemingway's newspaper coverage of Norman "Red" Ryan's daring 1923 escape from Kingston Penitentiary, Toronto author Marianne Miller decided that the facts didn't capture the emotional hearts of Hemingway or Ryan. An entry that Hemingway made in a notebook saying that he was considering writing a novel about Ryan convinced her to turn her hand to fiction to depict the men behind the characters.
The result is a page-turner, and my favorite…