Hemingway's boat everything he loved in life, and lost P. Hendrickson

"This unfailingly intelligent meditation on the achievement of genius and the corrosion of fame brings a man we thought we knew to life in a wholly different light." NEWSWEEK A BRILLIANTLY CONCEIVED AND ILLUMINATING RECONSIDERATION OF A KEY PERIOD IN THE LIFE OF ERNEST HEMINGWAY THAT WILL FOREVER CHANGE THE WAY HE IS PERCEIVED AND UNDERSTOOD. Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide —Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer. "This study of Ernest Hemingway's later years deepens and disturbs our understanding of a much-studied figure. . . Hemingway has never seemed so vivid or his work so heroic." WALL STREET JOURNAL, Best Nonfiction of the Year "A lyrical and expansive search for the essence of a famous writer heart, soul, and hull." JULIA KELLER, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Top Picks of the Year