Ernest Hemingway

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Analytical biography of Hemingway's life and works.

If you've ever been fascinated by the sheer boldness of Hemingway's prose or his adventurous life, Anthony Burgess's biography peels back the layers of this literary titan. It's a deep dive into the psyche of a man who sought to capture life's essence in sparse yet potent language. With Burgess's eloquent narrative, you're sure to gain a richer understanding of both Hemingway the writer and Hemingway the man.

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Ernest Hemingway

Regular price RM63.17 MYR
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ISBN: 9780500260173
Authors: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Date of Publication: 1999-05-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Goodreads rating: 3.67
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Hemingway's great achievement was to free the novel from all the languid decoration and cozy indirectness that was its early twentieth-century inheritance. His terse prose taught the writer to engage life to the fullest in order to write about it, and his own life was the perfect demonstration of that principle. Reissued to coincide with the centenary of Hemingway's birth, Anthony Burgess's insightful biography traces the rapidly changing scene from a happy, complacent childhood to the grim reality of the First World War and the vulgar unreality of the Second; from the Paris of the 1920s to the Spain of Civil War and the excitements of African safari to the somber last years in Cuba. Hemingway was rich and successful from an early age, yet public acclaim and even the Nobel Prize could not disguise the fact that he was a moody, suffering, and sometimes vicious figure--a man who was finally unable to live with his own image.
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Analytical biography of Hemingway's life and works.

If you've ever been fascinated by the sheer boldness of Hemingway's prose or his adventurous life, Anthony Burgess's biography peels back the layers of this literary titan. It's a deep dive into the psyche of a man who sought to capture life's essence in sparse yet potent language. With Burgess's eloquent narrative, you're sure to gain a richer understanding of both Hemingway the writer and Hemingway the man.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.