A review by allmadhere106
Hemingway: A Life in Pictures by Mariel Hemingway, Boris Vejdovsky

3.0

Hemingway's life is brought to a modern audience through various pictures and images. The photos were beautiful and I really enjoyed looking through everything and seeing how one stage of his life moved into another. I have a strong background knowledge of Hemingway though as I've taken several classes and done my own reading. I would say that without that background knowledge, this text would have been frustrating and incomplete. Some sections were grouped in such a way as to be extremely nonlinear, to the point of confusion about people Hemingway knew or places he was in at a certain time. I had to flip back and forth as I thought that I missed important passages, only to realize that the important facts simply were not written in the text. I would suggest this as an additional reading for someone looking in to Hemingway's life, but not as an opening text for introductory readers.