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    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
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    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

    By A.E. Hotchner

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    An intimate, joy-filled portrait and New York Times bestseller, written by one of Hemingway’s closest friends: “It is hard to imagine a better biography” (Life).

    In 1948, A. E. Hotchner went to Cuba to ask Ernest Hemingway to write an article on “The Future of Literature” for Cosmopolitan magazine. The article never materialized, but from that first meeting at the El Floridita bar in Havana until Hemingway’s death in 1961, Hotchner and the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author developed a deep and abiding friendship. They caroused in New York City and Rome, ran with the bulls in Pamplona, hunted in Idaho, and fished the waters off Cuba. Every time they got together, Hemingway held forth on an astonishing variety of subjects, from the art of the perfect daiquiri to Paris in the 1920s to his boyhood in Oak Park, Illinois. Thankfully, Hotchner took it all down.
     
    Papa Hemingway provides fascinating details about Hemingway’s daily routine, including the German army belt he wore and his habit of writing descriptive passages in longhand and dialogue on a typewriter, and documents his memories of Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Martha Gellhorn, Marlene Dietrich, and many of the twentieth century’s most notable artists and celebrities. In the literary icon’s final years, as his poor health began to affect his work, Hotchner tenderly and honestly portrays Hemingway’s valiant attempts to beat back the depression that would lead him to take his own life.
     
    Deeply compassionate and highly entertaining, this “remarkable” New York Times bestseller “makes Hemingway live for us as nothing else has done” (The Wall Street Journal).
     
     

    Editor's Note

    Friends forever…

    Editor, playwright, and biographer A.E. Hotchner lived a full life before he died at age 102 on February 15, 2020. Hotchner had many famous friends that became the subjects of his writings, most significantly Ernest Hemingway, as Hotchner wrote multiple books about the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. This biography chronicles their personal and professional relationship from its start in 1948 to Hemingway’s death in 1961.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateApr 17, 2018
    ISBN9781504051156
    Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir
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    A.E. Hotchner

    A.E. HOTCHNER is a life-long writer and the author of O.J. in the Morning, G & T at Night and Papa Hemingway, the critically acclaimed 1966 biography of his close friend Ernest Hemingway. Hotchner's memoir, King of the Hill, was adapted into a film in 1993 by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his writing career, Hotchner is co-founder, along with Paul Newman, of Newman's Own foods. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and pet parrot, Ernie.

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    • 4/5
      This is a personal memoir by Hotchner, who was a close friend of Hemingway's throughout the last 14 years of his life. Many of the stories told here are not surprising. Most who are familiar with Hemingway and his work will not be surprised to learn that he liked to fish, drink, make love, and go to bull fights. On the other hand, the Hemingway fan will get a better insight into what made Papa tick and just what led to his ultimate destruction.The biggest drawback that I found to the memoir was that Hotchner sometimes introduces people without explaining who they are to the reader. That is fine with more famous people, like Ava Gardner and Gary Cooper, but there are other people who have a close relationship with Hemingway who just appear in the book without any introduction. I found this to be off-putting and frustrating.Despite this major flaw, I found the book to be helpful in allowing me to know who Hemingway really was as his friends saw him, and I found Hotchner's ending to be poignant, touching, and even a tad motivational. I was also impressed with the obvious influence Papa had on Hotchner's writing style. He used the same short sentences as Hemingway, and he got right to the action and wasted little time beating around the bush. The best accolade that I can give this book is that it made me want to read more Hemingway. I really liked it.
    • 2/5
      A memoir of A.E. Hotchner a journalist who spent years with Hemingway in his later years as a friend and confidant. The book is insightful in getting a feel for the twilight of Hemingway's life and the struggles he encountered at the end. It was curious to me that Hotchner was taken in to Hemingway's confidences from an encounter as a journalist covering a story on him. Regardless Hotchner does become this and the book highlights the times they spent together around the world and at Hemingway's residences. It was a sad ending as Hemingway sinks into his depression and paranoia that led to his suicide. Not particularly pleasant material as he struggles to recapture his past and lifestyle that as in most such cases is not doable. Hemingway will always hold as a legend but in reality much of his life had to do with his struggles to maintain the life of adventure and experience.
    • 4/5
      A.E. Hotchner was a good friend of Ernest "Papa" Hemingway from 1948 until Hemingway's sad decline and death in 1961. An interesting account focused on their friendship, convesations, and occasional reminiscing by Hemingway. I got the feeling Hemingway had mellowed somewhat in his later years, but at the same time increasingly suffered from mental and health issues. Because Hotchner was Hemingway's friend, this is definitely a sympathetic account and therefore probably not all that objective, but still provided insight in Hemingway's personality and thought processes.
    • 5/5
      A very personal look at Ernest Hemingway.Many insights into Hemingway. Clearly he was very bright and clearly he was severely emotionally ill at the time he shot himself.Interesting vignettes of his time in Cuba and Spain and of his love for bullfighting and matadors. Many things came together at the end of his life to diminish his capabilities and lead to his depression and anxiety.Given his family history there must be a genetic contribution to his emotional illness and suicide. Clearly the attempts to treat his emotional illness failed dismally. THe author clearly knew Hemingway well and had a lot of insight into his mind.Some of the information about Hemingway’s work habits were very interesting.
    • 5/5
      Riveting journey through an extraordinary life. PaPa was a piece of work.
    • 4/5
      This was a fascinating look by his son. I would have loved more details and more insight, yet it shows hemingways life through the eyes of his son.

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