Writer, sailor, soldier, spy

• Verfasst von: Reynolds, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Writer, sailor, soldier, spy
• Titelzusatz: Ernest Hemingway's secret adventures, 1935-1961
• Verf.angabe: Nicholas Reynolds
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
• E-Jahr: 2017
• Jahr: [2017]
• Umfang: xxi, 357 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• ISBN: 978-0-06-244013-6
• ISBN: 0-06-244013-6
• ISBN: 0-06-267761-6
• Schlagwörter: (p)Hemingway, Ernest
• Dokumenttyp: Biografie
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: HU 3865
• K10plus-PPN: 890821674

Abstract

As he examines the links between Hemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings, which destroyed the life of anyone with Soviet connections. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some of Hemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one of America's most legendary authors.