The Importance of Not Being Ernest Audiobook Libro.fm

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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No OtherDiscover Hemingways biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist New York Timesbestselling author of Salt Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway Sometimes funny sometimes sad The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts The perfect gift for writers By a series of coincidences Mark Kurlanskys life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingways legend starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingways death The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingways and Kurlanskys lives resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spainboth cities important to Hemingways adventurous life and prolific writing Key West Havana and Chicago Get to know the extraordinary people he met therethose who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did two winners of the Key West Hemingway lookalike contest and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishingIn this unique gift for writers find A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative stories Littleknown historical facts about Hemingways life Anecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls hemitis