The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 5, spanning 1932 through May 1934, traces the completion and publication of Death in the Afternoon and Winner Take Nothing. During this intensely active period, Hemingway hunts in Arkansas and Wyoming, fishes the waters off Key West and Cuba, revisits Madrid and Paris, and undertakes a long-anticipated African safari. He witnesses transitions at home and abroad: the deepening Great Depression, Prohibition-era rumrunning, revolution in Cuba, and political unrest in Spain. His readership and celebrity continue to expand as he begins writing for the new men's magazine Esquire. As the volume ends, Hemingway has just acquired his beloved boat, Pilar. The letters detail these events as well as his relationships with his family, friends, publishers, critics and literary contemporaries including editor Maxwell Perkins, Archibald MacLeish, John Dos Passos, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together the letters paint an intimate self-portrait of this multi-faceted, self-confident, energetic artist in his prime.
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Weight: 1440g
Dimensions: 160 x 235mm
Publication Date: 11 Jun 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521897372
About Ernest Hemingway
Sandra Spanier Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University is General Editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway and co-editor of the first four volumes. Her essays have appeared in Modern Critical Interpretations: 'A Farewell to Arms' (1987) New Essays on 'A Farewell to Arms' (Cambridge 1990) Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice (2002) and Ernest Hemingway in Context (Cambridge 2013) and she serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review. Her books include Kay Boyle: A Twentieth-Century Life in Letters (2015) Process: A Novel by Kay Boyle (2001) and Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles's rediscovered play Love Goes to Press (1995; revised edition 2010). Miriam B. Mandel Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and American Culture at Tel Aviv University served as Associate Editor of earlier volumes and co-editor of the fourth volume of The Letters of Ernest Hemingway. Her books include Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions (1995 re-issued 2011) Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon': The Complete Annotations (2008) and Hemingway's 'The Dangerous Summer': The Complete Annotations (2008). She is the editor of A Companion to Hemingway's 'Death in the Afternoon' (2004) and Hemingway and Africa (2011 re-issued 2016) has published more than thirty essays in academic journals and books is the recipient of seven major grants and serves on the editorial board of The Hemingway Review.