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Hemingway, Ernest
by True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir of His Last African Safari
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- ISBN 10
- 0684849216
- ISBN 13
- 9780684849218
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New York. 1999. Scribner. Uncorrected galleys. Photocopied & bound with black binding tape. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. Very Good in Wrappers With A Few Small Tears At The Top Of The First Few Pages. 0684849216. A Fictional Memoir Of His Last African Safari. These were distributed in very limited quantities mainly for the Scribner sales force. 400 pages. paperback. keywords: Literature America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery - the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry. As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the incalculable casualties of marriage,' and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent. inventory #35262 ISBN: 0684849216.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35262
- Title
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Author
- True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir of His Last African Safari
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0684849216
- ISBN 13
- 9780684849218
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 1999
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