The Young Hemingway

by Michael Reynolds

Overview

A National Book Award Finalist

"The Young Hemingway will entertain and surprise…It should rank as one of the best nonfiction books of the year." —Los Angeles Times

Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky—the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393317763
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/1998
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	298,443
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Michael Reynolds was a professor of English at North Carolina State University and a finalist for the National Book Award for Young Hemingway. His other works include Hemingway: The Paris Years and Hemingway: The Homecoming.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Time Was
1. The End of Something
2. Home as Found
3. Summer People: Part One
4. Still Life with Parents
5. Summer People: Part Two
6. Chicago
7. The Last Robin
8. Son and Lover
9. City Lights
10. The Beautiful Country
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Carlos Baker

A notable achievement by a estimable scholar.... Filled with shrewd apercus that could have occurred only to a veteran investigator thoroughly steeped in Hemingwayana.

Editorial Reviews

"Informative and entertaining."

New York Times Book Review

"A magnificent evocation of the difficult beginnings of Hemingway's literary career."

Mario Vargas Llosa

Informative and entertaining.-- "New York Times Book Review"

A magnificent evocation of the difficult beginnings of Hemingway's literary career.--Mario Vargas Llosa

From the Publisher

An enjoyable, well-written and scrupulously researched book that is crucial in understanding the source from which Hemingway's literature sprang and why "Papa" is revered, reviled, and above all, real.

Quincy Patriot Ledger

The Young Hemingway will entertain and surprise.... It should rank as one of the best nonfiction books of the year.

Los Angeles Times Book Review

The best treatment of the facts of the early life.

Sewanee Review