Hemingway's Passions
His Women, His Wars, and His Writing

When I was a preteen I saw the movie The Sun Also Rises. I was moved but I didn’t understand it. A few years later I purchased the novel and read it several times. Then, in 2014 I read it again, and I finally ‘got’ it. It is about war and trauma. And of course, a woman. There is always a woman in hi......more

I enjoyed this book about Hemingway. It was a little different because it focused on the women in his life and how they influenced his work and his thinking. He was married four times as well as becoming friends with a lot of other women along the way. It was a fast-moving biography with lots of det......more

To summarize: Hemingway marries. He gets bored. He moves on. He marries again. Maybe the most telling part of the book was a picture toward the end of Hemingway's life. He is at a dinner where he is photographed looking at and enamored by a teenage girl. The one that got away. But, oh how he tried. No......more

This was very interesting even though I already knew a lot about Hemingway! The non fiction book showed very clearly Hemingway 's passions : women , war and death. It also focuses on moral issues faced by Ernest such as courage, duty as regards fighting. Comparing various wars, he will refine/redefi......more

I enjoyed this book, Ms Sindelar uses Hemingway's life and letters to construct a narrative that highlights both the highs and lows of his life and the impact he had on other. While many of the facts are re-told from other books, i felt that this book condensed those other books and made for a quick......more