Hemingway in Love
16 June 2016Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over more than a...
Details
16 June 2016192 pages
9781447299912Imprint: Picador
Reviews
In this piercingly intimate new volume, A. E. Hotchner plumbs the depths of Hemingway's most poignant realizations and regrets - not just whom he loved and ultimately lost, but the very nature of his heart. A tender and devastating portrait...and one I will personally treasurePaula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
A. E. Hotchner is a natural storyteller, and it has been our good fortune that among his friends and acquaintances are bullfighters, glamorous women, talented actors, painters, poets, and interesting poseurs - people who attract and enlighten readers. Hemingway in Love is the crowning achievement in Hotchner's lifetime study of Hemingway, and I admire it immenselyGay Talese
The first complete understanding of the writer as a man...an important bookLibrary Journal (starred review)
A portrait of triumphant highs, melancholic lows, and the pervading tone of the subject's generation-a human being's love lostPublishers Weekly
