If you liked A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway you might like:
Moran Prairie Library Book Club selection for Thursday, March 28th, at 2 p.m. Everyone is welcome! |
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 | Atkinson, Michael S. | | Hemingway Deadlights | | A mystery novel featuring literary icon Hemingway as he attempts to solve the murder of a Key West fisherman – as the local police wash their hands of the case, Hemingway’s action-filled quest takes him from Key West to Cuba and lands him in the middle of a quarrel between the FBI and CIA. |
|  | Hemingway, Ernest | | For Whom the Bell Tolls | | One of the greatest war novels of the 20th century combines loyalty, courage, love, ideals, and honor as a young American travels to Spain in opposition to military leader Francisco Franco and joins the International Brigades as a dynamiter during the Spanish Civil War. |
|  | Hemingway, Ernest | | Green Hills of Africa | | During the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline embarked on a two month safari through East Africa, camping out and hunting big game. With rich descriptions he captures the beauty and magnificence of the landscape and culture, including such places as Mount Kilimanjaro and the great Serengeti Plain. |
|  | Hemingway, Ernest | | The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition | | An invaluable treasury that includes sixty of Hemingway short stories – seven never before published. This compilation allows the reader to see Hemingway’s development as a writer beginning with his early years and maturing through the Spanish Civil War and Europe. |
|  | Hemingway, Valerie | | Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways | | While working as a reporter in 1959 Spain, nineteen year old Valerie Danby-Smith was quickly invited into Ernest Hemingway’s family and hired as his secretary – as his constant companion she traveled with him extensively and was privy to every aspect of his life until his suicide in 1961, eventually marrying his youngest son Gregory. |
|  | Hendrickson, Paul | | Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost | | Boats played an integral part in Hemingway’s life, and this book uses one in particular, a 38 foot yacht named Pilar, to explore twenty-seven years leading up to his suicide – from marred marriages and difficult relationships with friends and family, his dominating personality unwittingly damaged those in his sphere. |
|  | Hotchner, A. E. | | Papa Hemingway: a Personal Memoir | | For fifteen years Hotchner was Hemingway’s close pal and traveling companion and, while Hemingway reminisced about his childhood and recounted the many events of his life, Hotchner took notes and wrote it all down – eventually bringing it all together in this fascinating memoir. Photos included. |
|  | McLain, Paula | | The Paris Wife | | A fictional tribute to Hadley Richardson, the woman who captured Ernest Hemingway’s heart and, after a whirlwind romance, became his wife. Moving to Paris from Chicago they were not prepared for the fast-paced life they encountered, and their charmed union slowly crumbled. |
|  | Oates, Joyce Carol | | Wild Nights!: Stories about the Last Days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway | | In this intriguing collection, Oates emulates the styles of five American writers and accurately captures their personalities in imagining what they were thinking in their final days, providing alternate versions to their lives, deaths, and the human condition they experienced. |
|  | Reynolds, Michael S. | | Hemingway: the 1930s through the Final Years | | This book combines two of Reynolds’s prior books about Hemingway, chronicling all aspects of his life from 1929 to his death in 1961. Written with engaging narrative this biography explores his life as a writer, adventurer, war participant, husband and father. |
|  | Rowlands, Penelope | | Paris Was Ours | | An anthology of thirty-two works by diverse writers who share their experiences of living in Paris, often drawn to the city for work or study - both exciting and depressing, many found the romantic city of culture and history often surpassed by the indifference, hostility, and loneliness they encountered. |
|  | Vejdovsky, Boris | | Hemingway: a Life in Pictures | | A pictorial biography of Ernest Hemingway’s life and travels – including candid snapshots, newspaper articles, edited manuscripts, and love letters – offers insight into his life and his enormous impact on literature. |
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