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The Hemingway Patrols: Ernest Hemingway and His Hunt for U-Boats by Terry Mort (Paperback, 2011)
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He was looking for German submarines. "A unique biography of Ernest Hemingway's World War II experience. The author views these patrols as a synthesis of life and art, arguing that Hemingway embodied his own existential Hemingway Hero during these hunts -- or quests, as Hemingway himself preferred to call them.
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A fascinating account of a dramatic, untold chapter in Hemingway's life--his pursuit of German U-boats during World War II.From the summer of 1942 until the end of 1943, Ernest Hemingway lived in Havana, Cuba, and spent much of his time in the Gulf Stream hunting German sub- marines in his wooden fishing boat, The Pilar. This phase of Hemingway's life has only been briefly touched upon in biographies of Hemingway but proved to be of ermous importance to him. At the time, the U-boats were torpedo- ing dozens of Allied tankers each month and threatened America's ability to wage war in Europe. Hemingway's patrols were supported by the U.S. Navy, and he viewed these danger- ous missions as both patriotic duty and pure adventure. But they were more than that: they provided some literary basis for The Old Man and the Sea and Islands in the Stream. Terry Mort's sensitive portrait of Hemingway also brings us his wife Martha Gellhorn (who was scornful of Hemingway's patrols), a naval account of the U-boat attacks in the vicinity, and a perceptive contemplation of what the patrols meant to Hemingway the man as well as the artist. Drawing on the writer's letters, Gellhorn's memoirs, and the sailor's log of The Pilar, Mort reveals an important chapter in the life of a literary legend.Product Identifiers
PublisherScribner, Simon & Schuster
ISBN-101416597875
ISBN-139781416597872
eBay Product ID (ePID)189199200
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AuthorTerry Mort
FormatTrade Paperback (Us), Paperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBiography: General
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Place of PublicationNew York
Author BiographyAt Princeton, Terry Mort wrote his senior thesis on the Hemingway Hero. Carlos Baker, Hemingway's official biographer, was one of the readers. After that, Terry went to the University of Michigan with the idea of going into academics. He soon realized that the academic world was too restrictive, and besides, the Vietnam War was underway, so he volunteered for the Navy, where is specialties were navigation and gunnery. Along the way Terry bought a 44 foot trawler that he ran up and down the intracoastal waterway for five years or so, and is therefore quite familiar with handling boats like Hemingway's Pilar. In 2000 he had enough of business and travel and started writing and editing, full time. In addition to the books Terry has had short fiction appear in Gray's Sporting Journal and articles in Fly Fishing and in Field & Stream. He writes fairly regularly for Field & Stream, mostly doing reviews of classic sporting literature.
Date of Publication03/09/2011
Country of PublicationUnited States
