The Importance of Not Being Ernest

The Importance of Not Being Ernest
Mark Kurlansky
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Hardback
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10 May 2022 US
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9781642504637
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An Ernest Hemingway Biography Like No Other"For all that' s already been written about Hemingway,The Importance of Not Being Ernest illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before. " -Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award winner and author of The Friend and What Are You Going ThroughDiscover Hemingway' s biography through the eyes of a fellow author and journalist. New York Times bestselling author of Salt, Mark Kurlansky turns his historical eye to the life of Ernest Hemingway. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, The Importance of Not Being Ernest shows the huge shadow Hemingway casts. The perfect gift for writers. By a series of coincidences, Mark Kurlansky' s life has always been intertwined with Ernest Hemingway' s legend, starting with being in Idaho the day of Hemingway' s death. The Importance of Not Being Ernest explores the intersections between Hemingway' s and Kurlansky' s lives, resulting in creative accounts of two inspiring writing careers. Travel the world with Mark Kurlansky and Ernest Hemingway in this personal memoir, where Kurlansky details his ten years in Paris and his time as a journalist in Spain-both cities important to Hemingway' s adventurous life and prolific writing. Key West, Havana, and Chicago. Get to know the extraordinary people he met there-those who had also fallen under the Hemingway spell, including a Vietnam veteran suffering from the same syndrome the author did, two winners of the Key West Hemingway look-alike contest, and the man in Idaho who took Hemingway hunting and fishing. In this unique gift for writers, find:A memoir full of entertaining and illuminative storiesLittle-known historical facts about Hemingway' s lifeAnecdotes about those who suffer from what the Kurlansky calls "hemitis"Readers of biography books about writers such as Haruki Murakami' s What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, John Steinbeck' s Travels with Charley in Search of America, or The Boys will love The Importance of Not Being Ernest.
"The ghost of Hemingway has haunted and inspired at least three generations of American writers. Mark Kurlansky is no exception, and his detailed, self-deprecating account of the presence of that ghost is as brilliantly revealing of Hemingway as it is of Kurlansky himself. He knows his Hemingway, the life and the works, and he knows his Kurlansky, and he' s bitingly honest about both writers. Kurlansky, however, comes off as a hell of a lot more likable. "-Russell Banks, author of Continental Drift, Cloudsplitter, and Lost Memory of Skin, among other works of fiction "For all that' s already been written about Hemingway,The Importance of Not Being Ernest illuminates his life and works in ways not seen before. Our Not-Ernest is a superbly knowledgeable and entertaining guide, and the book artfully braids the Hemingway narrative with Kurlansky' s own rich experiences as a world-traveling journalist and bestselling author. Kurlansky' s idea for a memoir was inspired; the result is a brilliant and original achievement, a feast for readers, whether fans of Papa or not. "-Sigrid Nunez, author of the National Book Award-winning novel The Friend and What Are You Going Through
Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970-and refusing to serve in the military-Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number of off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College. He has worked many other jobs, including as a commercial fisherman, a dock worker, a paralegal, a cook, and a pastry chef. In the mid-1970s he turned to journalism, and from 1976 to 1991 he worked as a foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Based in Paris and then Mexico, he reported on Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The New York Times and many more. He has had 35 books published including fiction, nonfiction, and children' s books. His books include Havana, Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit' s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781642504637
Published: 10 May 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Mango Media
Publisher: Mango Media
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256

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