Awards

• Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2013
• Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2013 (UK)
• Long-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2013.

Overview

This is a literary tour de force, an invaluable, unforgettable and original portrait of Ernest Hemingway and his beloved boat, Pilar. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final twenty-seven years. She'd lasted through three wives, the Nobel Prize, and all his ruin. He'd owned her, fished her, worked her and rode her, from the waters of Key West to the Bahamas to the Dry Tortugas to the north coast and archipelagos of Cuba.' Even in his most accomplished period, Hemingway carried within him the seeds of his tragic decline and throughout this period he had one constant - his beloved boat, Pilar. The boat represented and witnessed everything he loved in life - virility, deep-sea fishing, access to his beloved ocean, freedom, women and booze and the formative years of his children. Paul Hendrickson focuses on the period from 1934 to 1961, from the pinnacle of Hemingway's fame to his suicide. He has delved into the life of Hemingway and done the seemingly impossible- present him to us in a whole new light.

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Rich, magisterial... Unforgettable -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times Hemingway's Boat had me hooked from beginning to end... An exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway -- Ian Thomson Sunday Telegraph To use Hemingway's favourite term of praise, it is not just enthralling, it is 'fine' -- Michael Prodger Financial Times Masterly... Heartbreaking... Brilliant New York Times Bewitchingly beautiful... Hendrickson is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life. -- Olivia Laing Observer

Hemingway's Boat had me hooked from beginning to end. Every friend and acquaintance of Hemingway has been interviewed here. The result is an exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway - his pleasures, foibles and occasional generosities. Now, perhaps for the first time, the 'great man with great faults' emerges as distinctive and memorable as any of his fictional creations. -- Ian Thomson Sunday Telegraph Bewitchingly beautiful near-biography of Hemingway... Hendrickson is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life. -- Olivia Laing Observer He has found a fresh way of telling a familiar story... By evoking and interpreting Hemingway's smaller moments, the author has found an ingenious way of showing how this unhappy and vulnerable man was generally nicer outside his family than in it. The Economist In this rich, magisterial account, Paul Hendrickson charts the author's relationship with Pilar... Indeed, Hendrickson uses Pilar the way Hemingway did; to fish for 'monsters' in the deep. By the end of Hemingway's Boat, he has landed a prodigious haul. Not only has he spoken to everyone, and read everything - including nearly 7,000 of Hemingway's letters - but his own writing is lyrical and laced with insight... unforgettable. -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times Paul Hendrickson is the most innovative and creative nonfiction writer I know. Just read Hemingway's Boat and you'll see what I mean. He has an almost saintly compassion for both the greatness and the foibles of Hemingway. A landmark publishing event. -- Professor Douglas G. Brinkley, Author Of The Great Deluge

Rich, magisterial... Unforgettable -- Ed Caesar Sunday Times Hemingway's Boat had me hooked from beginning to end... An exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway -- Ian Thomson Sunday Telegraph To use Hemingway's favourite term of praise, it is not just enthralling, it is 'fine' -- Michael Prodger Financial Times Masterly... Heartbreaking... Brilliant New York Times Bewitchingly beautiful... Hendrickson is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life. -- Olivia Laing Observer

Rich, magisterial... Unforgettable -- Ed Caesar * Sunday Times * This is the best, most understanding portrait of Hemingway yet written -- Allan Massie * Telegraph * To use Hemingway's favourite term of praise, it is not just enthralling, it is 'fine' -- Michael Prodger * Financial Times * Masterly... Heartbreaking... Brilliant * New York Times * Bewitchingly beautiful... Hendrickson is a miraculously lovely writer. He twists and turns through time, moving sensitively between the books and life. -- Olivia Laing * Observer * Hemingway's Boat had me hooked from beginning to end... An exceptionally lively biography, that offers a vivid new picture of Hemingway -- Ian Thomson * Sunday Telegraph * A beautifully written and loving understanding of a very troubled genius -- Jeffery Taylor * Sunday Express * The author, an accomplished storyteller, interprets myriad tiny details of Ernest Hemingway's life, and through them says something new about a writer everyone thinks they know. * The Economist, Books of the Year * I read [Hemingway's Boat] without a pause...an eye-opener of a book, full of unexpected riches, fascinating digressions... It just may be the best book I've read this year, and certainnly the best book I've read about an American writer in a long, long time -- Michael Korda * Newsweek, Favorite Books of the Year * Paul Hendrickson is the most innovative and creative nonfiction writer I know. Just read Hemingway's Boat and you'll see what I mean. He has an almost saintly compassion for both the greatness and the foibles of Hemingway. A landmark publishing event. -- Professor Douglas G. Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge

Author Information

Paul Hendrickson is the prize-winning author of Seminary; Looking for the Light; The Living and the Dead and Sons of Mississippi. He currently teaches non-fiction writing at the University of Pennsylvania and for two decades before that he was a staff writer at the Washington Post.

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