| Contents |
Key west by way of Havana, newlyweds passing through -- Oak Park and the war, fathers and sons (1899-1928) -- Adventures as close as Cuba (1928-1934) -- An island like a ship (1934-1936) -- A romantic getaway for two in Civil War Spain (1936-1939) -- Hemingway's Cuban family (1939-1961) -- Don Quixote vs. the wolf pack (1942-1944) -- Hemingway liberates the Ritz Hotel bar and pursues the Third Reich -- The return to the isle of paradise with Mrs. Mary Welsh Hemingway (1945-1947) -- A middle-aged author's obsession with a young Italian aristocrat (1947-1951) -- A citizen of Cojimar and a Cuban nobel prize (1952-1955) -- A North American writer and a Cuban Revolution (1956-1960) -- New year, new government (1959-1960) -- El commandante meets his favorite author -- Hemingway never left Cuba: a lion's suicide (1960-1961) -- Finca Vigia becomes the Finca Viga Museum (1960-present) -- Afterword: when your neighbor is Ernest Hemingway: Cojmar and San Francisco de Paula. |
| Abstract |
"Ernest Hemingway first visited Cuba in 1928, and the experience would change the course of his entire life. He settled in Cojimar--a tiny fishing village east of Havana--in 1940, and came to think of himself as Cuban. What he discovered there, a new world counterpart to his beloved Spain, provided him the material for the novel that would rescue his uncertain career. The Old Man and the Sea won him a Pulitzer Prize and, one year later, earned literature's highest honor--the Nobel Prize. Recognizing his debt, Hemingway announced to the press that he had won the prize "as a citizen of Cojimar." This is the Hemingway story that has never been told: the full story of Papa as an expatriate in Cuba, an ingenuous American opportunist whose natural openness and curiosity connected with the distinctive warmth of the Cuban character. In Cuba he formed key artistic relationships -- including a longstanding affair with a previously undiscovered Cuban lover, Leopoldina Roderiguez -- and became the Nobel Prize-winning literary legend we know today"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [471]-483) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Feldman, Andrew, 1973- author. Ernesto Brooklyn : Melville House, [2019] 9781612196398 |
| Genre/form | Biography. |
| Genre/form | Biographies. |
| LCCN | 2018050528 |
| ISBN | 9781612196381 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1612196381 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
