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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN num: 9780595089536
ISBN number: 0595089534
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Quantity: 1
Page Count: 407
Printing Date: July 18, 2000
Publishing house: AuthorHouse
Release Date: July 18, 2000
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Robert F. Burgess, who met Ernest Hemingway at his last Pamplona fiesta, describes that meeting and how close friends related to Hemingway there.
Through recently published letters and memoirs we learn new facts about Hemingway’s early years in Paris and Pamplona with an intimate look at the real life characters of The Sun Also Rises.
Then the author returns to Hemingway’s favorite haunts in Paris and Spain yesterday in search of Papa’s literary legacy. Following descriptions in The Sun Also Rises, he buses and backpacks into the Spanish Pyrenees, where he uncovers evidence that the Nobel Prize winning Hemingway wrote more fact than fiction into his novels.
These facts and those individuals who are carrying on his legacy reveal why Hemingway will always be with us.
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I discovered Hemingway's Paris & Pamplona in February of this year, three weeks after my long-planned trip to Paris. I was screaming as I read this wonerful book, thinking of the cliche: if only, if only.
Still, reading Robert's book was a great way to spend a few evenings. I have read most of Hemingway's work, including many of the popular bios about him. This book was different. Instead of approaching this subject as the all-powerful, all-knowing biographer, Robert Burgess takes the reader along with him on his trip in Hemingway's literary footsteps. This tale has the accuracy of a serious biography without all of the footnotes.
Among other things, Robert is an accomplished photographer, and his original photos of Hemingway in Pamplona are in this book. As the author meets Hemingway for the very first time, so does the reader.
Among so many other things, Hemingway's Paris & Pamplona accomplishes a couple of appreciated tasks.
First, whenever appropriate, the author lists the name and title of the source of his information, the result being a thorough list of biographies written on life in literary Paris at the turn of the century. I knew some of them, but surprises existed, too.
And second, reading this book feels like a conversation with the author, enjoyed at one of Hemingway's favorite bars. And every now and then, Robert will lean over and share a little-known story about a place or a person or a thing. Or at least the sidebar tidbits were unknown to me.
I was sad to finish this book, but thanks to the author, I know of many more, all waiting for me!
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What Hemingway aficionado wouldn't want to follow the master through Paris and Pamplona? If you did it, you'd no doubt want to reread _The Sun Also Rises_, and mix in a few biographies, as well. If you were really hardcore, you might read a whole bunch of memoirs from H.'s family, friends, and fellow writers.
Or if you were lazy, like me, you could pick up _Hemingway's Paris & Pamplona_, and see that Bob Burgess has already done all that legwork for you. He even dug up some unpublished manuscripts to help out. He bundles it all together into a fun, readable book, mixing in his personal experiences from living in Europe in the 50's, and meeting Hemingway at Pamplona.
What about the downsides? Well, the book is a little expensive, and the prose is a little creaky in places, but it is certainly a worthwhile read.
Log-rolling-in-our-time-disclaimer: I'm on the same Hemingway mailing list as Bob Burgess, and have occasionally exchanged private e-mail with him. We're not so tight that I'd give him a pass if his book was lousy, though. Check it out!
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Mr Burgess really did some extensive research, he brings the charactors that inspired 'The Sun Also Rises' to life as no one has done before. I was entertained and informed from beginning to end, the book answered a lot of questions I have long had about how much was fact and how much was fiction in the writing of SAR. The best book I have read on Hemingway in a long time..
S Alfred Baker
Hemingway in Michigan Research Center
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Bob Burgess is a long time fan of Hemingway and met the author in Pamplona. In this book Burgess is meticulous and knowledgeable and manages to conjur up the man, the events, the places, and the atmosphere. His research is meticulous and the work authoritative. I'll be reading the book unabridged for Golden Hours for the Blind and Disabled on Oregon Public Broadcasting later this year.
-- Harley l. Sachs
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This is an enjoyable read.
I especially liked the fact that the author did not embellish or hype his conversations and contact with Hemingway in Pamplona. What Burgess writes is fascinating, and he tells his story simply in the best Hemingway tradition.
The book contains quite a lot of Hemingway lore and facts I had not heard or read before. Burgess presents this information in a writing style that is comfortable and interesting for the reader who might not be such a Hemingway addict as myself.
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