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Hemingway : A Life Without Consequences
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Hemingway : A Life Without Consequences Paperback - 1993

by Mellow, James R

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Award-winning author Mellow offers a thorough reassessment of a man who was both a literary giant and an icon for his age. Uncovering new material, Mellow reveals aspects of the writer's life unexplored by previous biographers. "The best work done on the writer to date".--New York Times. Photos.

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  • Title Hemingway : A Life Without Consequences
  • Author Mellow, James R
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition Th
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 736
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1993-09-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4489113-6
  • ISBN 9780201626209 / 0201626209
  • Weight 2.2 lbs (1.00 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.18 x 6.1 x 1.83 in (23.32 x 15.49 x 4.65 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Hemingway, Ernest, Novelists, American - 20th century -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93024497
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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First line

It must have seemed to Ernest Hemingway, as it had to his hero Harry Walden, the dying writer of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro " that he had come to a time when he was too tired to care much, a time without affect, a time when, facing the prospect of death, he had edged beyond pain: "For years it had obsessed him; but now it meant nothing in itself.

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About the author

James R. Mellow won the National Book Award for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences completes the trilogy that includes Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company, and Invented Lives: F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. In his thirty-six year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow has written for The New York Times, Architectural Digest, The Washington Post, Gourmet, and Arts magazine, among other publications, He lives in Clinton, Connecticut.