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A review by kevin_shepherd
Ernest Hemingway: A Biography by Mary Dearborn
4.0
“You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.” -Gertrude Stein
Besides being a phenomenally talented novelist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway—along with contemporaries like Henry Miller and Norman Mailer—was the personification of American virility. But, as this biography illustrates, Ernest “had a robust capacity to find offense.”
I liked him a lot more before I read this book
The neglectful parenting, the domestic violence, the racism, the antisemitism, the boozing, the toxic machismo, the cruelty to animals, the narcissistic proclivities, all characterized this seemingly untenable douche—the same douche who, by the way, was arguably the greatest American writer of the twentieth century.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Besides being a phenomenally talented novelist and short story writer, Ernest Hemingway—along with contemporaries like Henry Miller and Norman Mailer—was the personification of American virility. But, as this biography illustrates, Ernest “had a robust capacity to find offense.”
I liked him a lot more before I read this book
The neglectful parenting, the domestic violence, the racism, the antisemitism, the boozing, the toxic machismo, the cruelty to animals, the narcissistic proclivities, all characterized this seemingly untenable douche—the same douche who, by the way, was arguably the greatest American writer of the twentieth century.
“Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald