"Hemingway's Boat" by Paul Hendrickson  Hemingway's Boat --
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul
Hendrickson (HANDOUT / October 28, 2011)  Every writer has two
lives: The life that contains elements common to all lives —
birth and death and everything in between — and a second life.
The second life is another thing entirely. It consists of the
world's reaction to the writer's work.  Ernest Hemingway, you
could argue, had substantial good luck in both lives. He lived
well, ate well, traveled widely, married often, did pretty much
what he wanted to do, which included, he boasted, an ability to
woo successfully any woman he desired (I'm being discreet in my
verb selection). Early success meant he had plenty of money,
multiple homes and — as Paul Hendrickson details in eloquent and
voluminous fashion in his brilliant new book, "Hemingway's Boat:
Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961" (Knopf) — one
wonderful boat, upon which he fished, pontificated and dreamed.
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