Hemingway`s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, Hendrickson Paul

From National Book Critics Circle Award winner Paul Hendrickson, 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.
Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961--from Hemingways pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide--Paul Hendrickson traces the writers exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.
Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingways sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writers boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity--to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingways Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.