Looking for Hemingway : Spain, the bullfights, and a final rite of passage /
In 1959, the most famous literary figure of his time set out in the twilight of his life to recapture his early success in the 1920s. The experience tested all the credos of bravery and grace under pressure he had lived by. Just months before turning sixty, Ernest Hemingway headed for Spain to write...
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Guilford, Connecticut :
Lyons Press,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue; 1 "Fiesta, Sí!"; 2 La Consula; 3 The Dying Artist; 4 The Politics of the Corrida; 5 Hollywood in Spain; 6 The Rich Are Different; 7 Who Was Hemingway?; 8 Who Was Bill Davis?; 9 Silencio, Por Favor; 10 Bullfighting as Art; 11 Great Fortune; 12 The Well Runs Dry; 13 Needing a Death in the Bullring; 14 The Ghost of Manolete; 15 The Ordoñez-Dominguín Feud; 16 The Cost of the Softhearted Man; 17 The One True Sentence; 18 Paris One More Time; Epilogue; Author's Note and Acknowledgments; Appendix I: Hemingway's Nobel Prize Speech; Appendix II: Time Line of Hemingway in Spain.
- Appendix III: Selected Letters from Ernest Hemingway to Bill DavisBibliography; Index; About the Author.