Hemingway's Key West
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all. This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway's Key West reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the macho, hard-drinking sportsman. His Key West years turned out to be his most productive: he finished A Farewell to Arms, started For Whom the Bell Tolls, and wrote several other books, including Green Hills of Africa, Death in the Afternoon, and To Have and Have Not. He also turned out some of his best short stories. There was plenty of time left over for eating, drinking, fighting, fishing, chasing women, and hanging out with his circle of friends (known as "the Mob"). Hemingway spent the last years of his life in Cuba, and it was here he overcame several demons—accidents, failing health, depression—to write The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize in Literature.
Filled with photos (some of which were not available in the first edition), this book also includes a two-hour walking tour of Key West and a tour of Hemingway's favorite Cuban haunts. This edition also includes a record of the author's exploits in Bimini and Cuba. Accompany Hemingway on fishing expeditions in the Gulf Stream and to Cuba and Bimini aboard his custom-built boat, Pilar. A treat for Hemingway fans!
Stuart McIver
Stuart McIver was the author of eleven books on Florida. In addition, he wrote more than four hundred stories and articles for both regional and national publications and was the editor of South Florida History Magazine. A North Carolina native, McIver has been called “south Florida’s tribal storyteller.”
Related to Hemingway's Key West
Related ebooks
Ghost Night Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bonita Springs Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHistory of St. Augustine: Whimsically Illustrated Account Of North America's Oldest City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsConstitution Island Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRemembering the Way it Was: More Stories from Hilton Head, Bluffton and Daufuskie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prairie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Prairie Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSan Juan Island Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPalm Beach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEarly Cupertino Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5The Bolivar Peninsula Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe East Coast Chronicles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFranconia and Sugar Hill Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHurricane Jim Crow: How the Great Sea Island Storm of 1893 Shaped the Lowcountry South Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Summer Place Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Face in the Rock: The Tale Of A Grand Island Chippewa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5French Pathfinders in North America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCarolina Beach Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGhost Stories of St. Petersburg, Clearwater and Pinellas County: Tales from a Haunted Peninsula Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAround Great Moose Lake Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTwo Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Siwash, Their Life, Legends, and Tales: Puget Sound and Pacfic Northwest Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Music of Johnny Rivers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBethany Beach: A Brief History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Oldest City Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSpring Lake Heights: A Brief History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMelbourne Beach and Indialantic Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lander Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCavalier in the Wilderness Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Cedar Keys Hurricane of 1896: Disaster at Dawn Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Biographies For You
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Distance Between Us: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Molly Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Very Best of Maya Angelou: The Voice of Inspiration Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Brothers Grimm: The Complete Fairy Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgatha Christie: An Elusive Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Glass Castle: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woman Who Could Not Forget Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931–1934 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Writing into the Wound: Understanding trauma, truth, and language Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love," The Unexpurgated Diary (1931–1932) of Anaïs Nin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Precious Days: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Albert Camus: Existentialism, the Absurd and rebellion Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5James Baldwin: A Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Teacher Man: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Writer's Diary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5People, Places, Things: My Human Landmarks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Writers and Their Notebooks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Moveable Feast Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confessions of a Bookseller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Devil and Harper Lee Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Hemingway's Key West
0 ratings0 reviews