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Title: Portrait of Hemingway by Lillian Ross ISBN: 0375754385 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing
Comment: As a true Hemingway fan, I found this book to be neither entertaining nor insightful... However, the afterword that follows it is quite interesting and contains a few fascinating stories. I recommend Hemingway's own book "A Moveable Feast" for anyone who wants to truly understand America's greatest writer.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Non-Fiction
Comment: Lillian Ross has the eye and ear of a reporter and the writing ability of a distinguished novelist. This feature on Hemingway, originally a NEW YORKER piece, is a delight for fans of Ross and fans of Hemingway of which I can be counted as both.
The story begins as Miss Ross meets Hemingway at Idlewood Airport (now JFK) in New York City in 1950. Ross spends the next two days going to museums, shopping, and meeting Hemingway's friend Marlene Dietrich and Editor Charles Scribner.
She's so unobtrusive in the story, you forget that she was actually in the room. When Hemingway talks to her, it's like a character has stepped out of a novel to speak with the author. You get this feeling because "Papa" is so much himself that he doesn't seem to be hiding his true personality from a member of the press corps.
I learned a good deal about Papa in this short book. You will too.
Rating: 5
Summary: does what biographies of 'Papa' cannot
Comment: This slim volume covering a mere two days with Hemingway will take about an hour or two to read. However, it's merit is that it is presents us with a 'bird's eye-view' of Hemingway's later years, the alcholism, his relationship with his wife Mary, his son, and some of his old friends. It also gives us a glimpse of his feelings about his writing in his own words. For those who have enjoyed Hemingway's fiction and read biographies of his life, this book is a must.
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Title: Picture by Lillian Ross, Anjelica Huston ISBN: 0306811286 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Reporting Back: Notes on Journalism by Lillian Ross ISBN: 1582431094 Publisher: Counterpoint Press Pub. Date: 04 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Best American Essays of the Century by Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan ISBN: 0618155872 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Modern American Memoirs by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060927631 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0394536487 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 21 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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