
Ernest Hemingway
A Biography
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Narrated by:
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Tanya Eby
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By:
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Mary V. Dearborn
A revelatory look into the life and work of Ernest Hemingway, considered in his time to be the greatest living American novelist and short story writer, winner of the 1953 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Mary Dearborn's new biography gives the richest and most nuanced portrait to date of this complex, enigmatically unique American artist, whose same uncontrollable demons that inspired and drove him throughout his life undid him at the end and whose seven novels and six short story collections informed - and are still informing - fiction writing generations after his death.
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Would you consider the audio edition of Ernest Hemingway to be better than the print version?
In no way. The audio does the printed book a disservice.Would you be willing to try another one of Tanya Eby’s performances?
Dearborn's work is very fine, as is her work on Mailer, Miller, etc. but unfortunately the spoken performance of this book has an almost patronizing tone: every aside or clause is overemphasized, and in several cases the inflection is just 'off' and doesn't sit well with the text. It sounds a little like Siri, or the flattened but forced affect of a computer reading. It's prim. Listening to Dearborn herself talk is lively, incisive. Not so with this performance, which I started to think was done by a 'bot'.A fine book undermined by performance
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Deeply involved, An affront to privacy
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Very interesting biography and great narration
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Yes. He interests me as a writer and a person and this book does present a fair amount of information.
What did you like best about this story?
Learning more about the man, the myth and the legend. Shows warts as well as praises.
What does Tanya Eby bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
Emotion.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Laughed at the funny parts and felt sad as his depression started taking over his life.
Any additional comments?
I am not sure if Mary Dearborn is showing a feminine bias or a historical bias but there are several points in the book I felt that she did not understand the behavior of the American male in that time period when viewing him with her present day eyes. By today's standards Hemingway was a bully and a bore, but in the context of the age he lived in - he was not. His treatment of his wives came off one sided. She comes off as confused as Earnest may have been about his sexuality. His mother was in any age a whack job and would have confused anybody. But Mary Dearborn shows great understanding and empathy concerning the battle he had with depression. All in all she has written a good book on the greatest of American writers in the 20th. century.
The last of a man's man.
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Too long; narration unclear
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Too bad the writer mocks the man
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Real Story.
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The book is great, performance is monotone.
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Excellent Read
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Earnest
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