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The Importance of Not Being Ernest

Autor Mark Kurlansky
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 iun 2022
In The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography contains an in-depth analysis of the places and people in Hemingway’s life.
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ISBN-13: 9781642504637
ISBN-10: 1642504637
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: color watercolors by the author; 20 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 157 x 230 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: MANGO MEDIA

Notă biografică

Mark Kurlansky was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving a BA in Theater from Butler University in 1970—and refusing to serve in the military—Kurlansky worked in New York as a playwright, having a number of off-off Broadway productions, and as a playwright-in-residence at Brooklyn College. He has worked many other jobs, including as a commercial fisherman, a dock worker, a paralegal, a cook, and a pastry chef. In the mid-1970s he turned to journalism, and from 1976 to 1991 he worked as a foreign correspondent for The International Herald Tribune, The Chicago Tribune, The Miami Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Based in Paris and then Mexico, he reported on Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, Latin America, and the Caribbean. His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Time, The New York Times and many more. He has had 35 books published including fiction, nonfiction, and children's books. His books include Havana, Cod, Salt, Paper, The Basque History of the World, 1968, The Big Oyster, among other titles. He has received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Bon Appetit’s Food Writer of the Year Award, the James Beard Award, and the Glenfiddich Award. He lives in New York City.

Cuprins

PROLOGUE: A Dream Intrudes
CHAPTER ONE: Entrances and Exits
CHAPTER TWO: A Writer Must Escape
CHAPTER THREE: The Grass in Paris
CHAPTER FOUR: The Patent-leather Soul of Spain
CHAPTER FIVE: Cuba and the Unspeakable Feast
CHAPTER SIX: Idaho and the Last Escape
EPILOGUE: Unnatural New York
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