No admirer of Ernest Hemingway should be without this biography, fully illustrated with over 100 magnificent photographs. Here one can see Hemingway watching a bullfight, fishing in Key West, hunting in Tanganyika, looking over dead soldiers in Spain, engrossed in his writing, sailing with Martha Gellhorn, and talking with Fidel Castro. Hemingway was not just one of the most influential writers of the century. He was also an ambulance driver in World War I, a journalist covering the Spanish Civil War, a big-game hunter and deep-sea fisherman, a soldier with the French Resistance during World War II, an adherent of both pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, a passionate lover, the husband of four extraordinary women, a romantic prone to depression, a suicide, and of course, a best selling novelist. His colorful life lends itself to a sumptuously illustrated treatment. In this brief, to-the-point biography, David Sandison reveals Hemingway as a complex character who was far more than the sum of his parts, and in the process illuminates both his writings and the age helped define.
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This is one of what will no doubt be many books published to coincide with Hemingway's upcoming centennial this July. Though photo-rich, this thumbnail portrait lacks detail and depth, offering little insight into Hemingway's life beyond names, places, and dates. It also contains neither an index nor a bibliography. Though it brings nothing new to the study of Hemingway, this book could attract the reader with a working knowledge of his life who is simply looking for the basics. Ultimately, however, it seems best suited for grammar and junior high school-level collections. Public libraries sporting the scholarly biographies by Carlos Baker and Michael Reynolds can pass on this.?Michael Rogers, "Library Journal"
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
No new material here, but an interesting pictorial biography,
By ngerman@selu.edu (Hammond, LA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ernest Hemingway: An Illustrated Biography (Hardcover)
Sandison is capitalizing on the rush for books on the 100th anniversary of Hemingway's birth. If you know nothing about Hemingway, the book is valuable, but Sandison's account of the life is a mechanical recitation of facts gleaned from the Lynn and Mellow biographies. Many of the well-reproduced photos lose their effect because of a faux sepia tone or a blue tint. The prose is often turgid, suggesting that Sandison would do well to reread and imitate Hemingway. Authorial or editorial errors abound. To cite from pages 77-80 only, Bumby's nanny is spelled "Rorbach" and "Rohrbach," the Fitzgeralds' daughter is "Scoltie," and "pseudonymous"--difficult enough to pronounce--gets orthographically spanked as "pseudonomymous." The book is good for bedtime reading, but it is not scholarly by a long stretch.
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