FREE HEMINGWAYS BOAT: EVERYTHING HE LOVED IN LIFE, AND LOST, 1934-1961 PDF Paul Hendrickson | 720 pages | 03 Jan 2013 | Vintage Publishing | 9780099565994 | English | London, United Kingdom Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson: | : Books Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the and Lost. Return to Book Page. Preview — Hemingway's Boat by Paul Hendrickson. From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. Whenever he could, he 1934-1961 to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fight the biggest fish Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life could find, to drink, to entertain celebrities and friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to the diseases of fame, we see that Pilar was also where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities. Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light. He was the son Hemingway forsook the least, yet the one who disappointed him the most, as Gigi acted out for 1934-1961 his whole life so many of the tortured, ambiguous tensions his father felt. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life Hemingway. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Hemingway's Boatplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 01, John Arfwedson rated it it was amazing. What a book! Hendrickson takes the quirky view that writing a kind of biography of Hemingway using the old man's love of his boat, the Pilar, and everything it connects him to will work. It does, in fascinating and unpredictable ways. PH writes, on every page, with an urgency that fully catches you up in his obsession. PH's research is not merely relentless, it is joyful, and it is What a book! PH's Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life is not merely relentless, it is joyful, and it is this quality, really, that sets the book apart as a reading experience. Everything is recreated, plunged into, imagined and reimagined, with a depth and intensity that grab you by the throat and never let go. Obviously, the book centers on Hem but it also presents side biographies of little-known friends of Hem's who serve to illuminate the great man's contradictory qualities. Of course I use the phrase "great man" ironically. How could you not? Hemingway is easily one of the most tragically and artistically compelling figures ever to bestride the world stage. He was a great writer and a terrible one; he was a staunch friend and a vicious rejecter; he was a loving father and an absent one. He was all these things at once, sometimes on the same day. The man's enduring magnetism comes first from the art and the achievement How does a young man in his twenties write those short stories? There is at the heart of Hem's best work a profound sense of the death-in-life and the and Lost that animates everything. His answer to this, on and off the page, was a passionate living and dying every day. Even as we turn our eyes away from the carnage, it is riveting The latter both made him and destroyed him. It fed his hubris which, eventually, swallowed him whole. He offers up the man in all his stunning complexities and larger-than-lifeness. You would not have wanted to be his friend when he turned on you as he turned on so many but here you grasp why so many were drawn to him anyway. Actually, he was one of the most profoundly human and spiritually powerful creatures I have ever Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life. Always the beauty. Always the ruin. Always 1934-1961. View all 5 comments. First impression Unfortunately, this view was not sustained as I continued reading. 1934-1961 about pages, my enthusiasm began to wane. There is much repetition and a confusing lack of focus. The timeline and cast of characters has become very jumbled. I have the sense the author has lost control of the material and is just pumping out everything he knows. Yet, every once in a while there is a fascinating First impression Yet, every once in a while there is a fascinating story. Almost pages to go. I think some serious editing would have made "Hemingway's Boat" much more readable and memorable. I am and Lost thoroughly bored and confused by the frequent leaping from decade to decade and character to character that I'm not interested enough to do the and Lost to figure out the connections and point of what I confess I'm now only skimming. Finally finished. Ernest Hemingway is one of and Lost best writers and he Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life a fascinating life, full of triumph, failure and tragedy. A biographer, it seems to me, would need to approach a life of Hemingway much as a historical novelist might, with focus and selectivity. But while "Hemingway's Boat" contains many interesting anecdotes, my conclusion is that the author was simply overwhelmed by the huge amount of material 1934-1961 has obviously studied and absorbed. Believe me, I know the feeling, having succumbed to it more than once in and Lost my own historical novels. Fortunately, several of my early readers pointed out to me that it was not necessary, and indeed distracting, to write everything I knew. View all 11 comments. Mar 01, Quo rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Hemingway fans; anyone interested in a biography of a major American figure. Shelves: reviewedpersonal- identityinterpersonal-dynamics. Paul And Lost wonderful book, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost is less a traditional biography than a sort of non-clinical excavation of the author's psyche, using a wide range of sources, all manner of people who intersected with Hemingway, sometimes only briefly and using Hemingway's boat, the "Pilar", 1934-1961 a metaphor for the author. Sailing was a different culture. You could formulate it like this: a sailboat would always be to a motor launch as fly-fishing is to night crawlers. Houk rank high among them. While much of the extended character study is focused on the boat, Hendrickson invests the energy of a good literary detective in sorting through many other components of Hemingway's life. Thus, I think this book might be of interest even if one has never read one of the famous author's celebrated novels. Among the points of focus beyond the "Pilar" are Hemingway's wives, editors, fellow writers, celebrities and his children, including his favored son "Gigi", whose life initially had the most promise but which ended most tragically, still in search of his essential identity late in life. Paul Hendrickson finds particular meaning in some of Hemingway's fishing logs from the "Pilar" It's as if he's creating a raw, immediate, documentary novel within the larger novel of his life, a work with its own storytelling arc. Somewhere in the background you can hear the revolutionary turmoil in the streets of Havana. If there's the occasional fishing victory, there's more often the palpable disappointment. Hendrickson sums this up by saying, "as with all of Hemingway's work, you end up feeling more than you necessarily Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life another core And Lost writing value. Sep 20, Gary rated it it was amazing. Really enjoyed it!! The last section not so much I highly recommend it. Oct 22, M. Sarki rated it it and Lost amazing Shelves: 5-star-wonders. The biography is presented in a scientific, almost astronomical, technique known as "averted vision" and is described by Hendrickson as an idea that "sometimes you can see the essence of a thing more clearly if you are not looking at it directly. NPR Choice page Look Inside. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. From a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, a brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. Whenever he could, he returned to his beloved fishing cruiser, to exult in the sea, to fight the biggest fish he and Lost find, to drink, to entertain celebrities and friends and seduce women, to be with his children. But as he began to succumb to the diseases of fame, we see that Pilar was Hemingways Boat: Everything He Loved in Life where he cursed his critics, saw marriages and friendships dissolve, and tried, in vain, to escape his increasingly diminished capacities. Generally thought of as a great writer and an unappealing human being, Hemingway emerges here in a far more benevolent light.