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With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba Paperback – January 1, 1988

by Arnold Samuelson (Author)

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"In the spring of 1934 an adventurous twenty-two-year-old aspiring writer, Arnold Samuelson, hitchhiked from Minneapolis to Key West to meet Ernest Hemingway. Instead of turning him away, Hemingway hired him to guard his new cabin cruiser, 'Pilar,' and became the young man's mentor in the craft of writing." This memoir, which came to light after Samuelson's death in 1981, "recounts the remarkable year he spent with his idol - fishing for sailfish and marlin in the deep waters of the Gulf Stream, meeting Hemingway's friends, including poet Archibald Macleish and bullfighter Sidney Franklin."

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Henry Holt & Co
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January 1, 1988
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0030056179
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978-0030056178
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Henry Holt & Co (January 1, 1988)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0030056179
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0030056178
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.4 ounces

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Joseph D. Reap

Not entirely a bad thing, just not as heavy in the teacher-protégé ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2016

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There are some gems in here, when EH overtly gives Samuelson tips on writing, but most of this book is about fishing in either Key West or Cuba. Not entirely a bad thing, just not as heavy in the teacher-protégé relationship as you might think.

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Roxie G. Powell

If you desire to become a writer then buy it ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 23, 2016

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If you desire to become a writer then buy it. You'll never be sorry. It has more pithy and workable wisdom than most ballyhooed gurus.

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Fernando M. Barrenechea

his good & bad days

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 5, 2016

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Very complete information about Hemmingway's life , his good & bad days. It takes you by the hand to Cuba , Florida Keys and the Gulf.

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Michael W. Tulloch

Very interesting and entertaining.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 7, 2022

I absolutely loved reading this book. During the midSummer on my front porch of a big old house in a small quiet town. It was the perfect companion book to read along with Paul Hendrickson's "Hemingway's Boat....and while I enjoyed the character and writing of Arnold Samuelson,... getting to know EH. from this angle and perspective was deeply enjoyable. I'll never forget his advice to this young writer, that he took such a quick liking to. It was completely absorbing and I felt like I was there with them in a way I don't often experience as they sailed off to fish for Marlin in the Gulf Stream near Cuba. Charming book and sad in the end that they parted, never to connect again....and I didn't want to stop reading this book. I miss it already.

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Barbara Dahl

Not at all as described ... book in deplorable condition!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2009

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I am so disappointed with this book! While the book is intact, sadly, I cannot bring myself to prominently display it on my book shelves because of its deplorable condition. This book is certainly not anywhere near as described. There was no mention of it being a library book in its former life nor did the description mention the stickers affixed to the dust cover. Worst of all, is the fact that the dust cover is glued to the book! What gives?

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Essential for anyone who wants to try to understand Hemingway.

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ken wright

Outstanding

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 26, 2010

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One of the best books on EH. Filled with insights that explains many names , places, and events in his stories.

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Superb read, and with Hemingway's advice for writers!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 2, 2012

I read WITH HEMINGWAY not because I was interested in Hemingway (I am, but mildly so), but because my father was from Key West, I have many happy childhood memories there, am returning for a brief trip in the near future, and wanted to immerse myself in its historical milieu. Little of the book is actually about life in Key West, but it is nevertheless a superb read, because author Arnold Samuelson is a skilled storyteller.

An aspiring writer as a young man, Samuelson had wanted to meet the great Hemingway, and certainly didn't expect that Hemingway would feel fatherly toward him, taking him on as an employee on his boat, the Pilar, and mentoring him as a writer. The result is a compelling narrative of his year with Hemingway, brimming with personal reflections about the man and their experience fishing together.

The surprise for me, since I have no interest in fishing, is that some of the fishing episodes were so well written and emotionally compelling that I read some of then twice. What stands out most in this regard is the day the crew encountered literally thousands of dolphins leaping in the water around them:

"At the top of their jump they appeared to be suspended motionless in midair, heads erect, hanging from an invisible line, before they turned and went down. Then hundreds of them began taking long, horizontal leaps and the air was filled with them, in the distance looking like a flock of birds flying low over the water, swooping down, coming up and diving again."

At least as rich an experience as reading the fishing episodes is the advice Hemingway gave Samuelson about writing - a goldmine of at least ten pages which, as a writer myself, I copied word for word into my writing journal. Some tidbits from Hemingway:

"When you first start to write you get all the kick and the reader gets none, but after you learn to work it's your object to convey everything to the reader so that he remember it is not a story he had read but something that happened to himself. That's the true test of writing. When you can do that, the reader gets the kick and you don't get any."

"The most important thing I've learned about writing is never write too much at a time.... Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop."

WITH HEMINGWAY is long out of print, little known, and well worth your time. Don't miss it!

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 3, 2016

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I really enjoyed this biography, of all of the Hemingway bio's I have read. There's one terrible chapter late in the book, and I'd really recommend skimming the sections without Hemingway, but in all it presents, without comment, a half year in the life.

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