Hemingway » (1st Harvard University Press paperback e)

In this immensely powerful and revealing study, Kenneth S. Lynn explores the many tragic facets that both nurtured Hemingway's work and eroded his life.

Frederick Crews - New York Review of Books

Not only one of the most brilliant and provocative literary biographies in recent memory but also the study that Hemingway most urgently needs at this point in his critical fortunes...Lynn has provided a model of the way biographically informed criticism can catch the pulse of works about which everything appeared to have been said. In short, he has made Hemingway interesting again.

Preface

PART ONE: 1899-1919

1. "I Had a Wonderful Novel to Write About Oak Park"

2. A Peculiar Idea

3. A Land of Magic

4. The Championship Game

PART TWO: 1919-1923

5. Rejection Slips

6. "The World's a Jail and We're Going to Break It Together"

7. Americans in Paris

8. Dragons' Teeth

9. Sports

PART THREE: 1923-1926

10. "Nick in the Stories Was Never Himself"

11. "We Have More Pun Together All the Time"

12. Harold and Horace, Scott and Zelda

13. Betrayals

14. Double Meanings

PART FOUR: 1926-1936

15. "I Loved Her Pine"

16. A Hollow Man

17. Mens Morbida in Corpore Sano

18. The Big Out

PART FIVE: 1936-1945

19. The Spanish Tragedy

20. "Book Selling Like Frozen Daiquiris in Hell"

21. Combined Operations

PART SIX: 1945-1961

22. Horrors

23. "How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen?"

24. "The Country Is Beautiful Around Here"

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index