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1 online resource (1 audio file (15hr., 31 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Timothy Andrés Pabon. |
| Summary |
From the first North American scholar permitted to study in residence at Hemingway's beloved Cuban home comes a radically new understanding of "Papa's" life in Cuba. Ernest Hemingway first landed in Cuba in 1928. In some ways he never left. After a decade of visiting regularly, he settled near Cojímar-a tiny fishing village east of Havana-and came to think of himself as Cuban. His daily life among the common people there taught him surprising lessons, and inspired the novel that would rescue his declining career. That book, The Old Man and the Sea, won him a Pulitzer and, one year later, a Nobel Prize. In a rare gesture of humility, Hemingway announced to the press that he accepted the coveted Nobel "as a citizen of Cojímar." In Ernesto, Andrew Feldman uses his unprecedented access to newly available archives to tell the full story of Hemingway's self-professed Cuban-ness: his respect for Cojímar fishermen, his long-running affair with a Cuban lover, the warmth of his adoptive Cuban family, the strong influences on his work by Cuban writers, his connections to Cuban political figures and celebrities, his denunciation of American imperial ambitions, and his enthusiastic role in the revolution. With a focus on the island's violent political upheavals and tensions that pulled Hemingway between his birthplace and his adopted country, Feldman offers a new angle on our most influential literary figure. Far from being a post-success, pre-suicide exile, Hemingway's decades in Cuba were the richest and most dramatic of his life, and a surprising instance in which the famous American bully sought redemption through his loyalty to the underdog. DedicationIntroduction1. Key West by Way of Havana, Newlyweds Passing Through2. Oak Park and the War, Fathers and Sons (1899-1928)3. Adventures as Close as Cuba (1928-1934)4. An Island like a Ship (1934-1936)5. A Romantic Getaway for Two in Civil-War Spain (1936-1939)6. Hemingway's Cuban Family (1939-1961)7. Don Quixote vs. the Wolf Pack (1942-1944)8. Hemingway Liberates the Ritz Hotel Bar and Pursues the Third Reich (1944)9. The Return to the Isle of Paradise with Mrs. Mary Welsh Hemingway (1945-1947)10. A Middle-Aged Author's Obsession with a Young Italian Aristocrat (1947-1951)11. A Citizen of Cojímar and a Cuban Nobel Prize (1952-1955)12. A North American Writer and a Cuban Revolution (1956-1959)13. New Year, New Government (1959-1960)14. El Comandante Meets His Favorite Author (1960)15. Hemingway Never Left Cuba: A Lion's Suicide (1960-1961)16. Finca Vigía Becomes the Finca Vigía Museum (1960-Present)Afterword: When Your Neighbor Is Ernest Hemingway: Cojímar and San Francisco de Paula Today "Andrew Feldman's readable Ernesto helps to extend our knowledge of Hemingway's complex relationship with his adopted second homeland of Cuba." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Biography |
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Audiobooks
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| Added Author |
Pabon, Timothy Andrés.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781094068169 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1094068160 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13246976 |
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