Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
by Hemingway, Valerie
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0345467337
- ISBN 13
- 9780345467331
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About This Item
New York: Ballantine Books, 2004. xii, 313 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Valerie Hemingway on the title page, no dedication. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer's estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family. In prose of brilliant clarity and stinging candor, Valerie evokes the magic and the pathos of Papa Hemingway's last years. Swept up in the wild revelry that always exploded around Hemingway, Valerie found herself dancing in the streets of Pamplona, cheering bullfighters at Valencia, careening around hairpin turns in Provence, and savoring the panorama of Paris from her attic room in the Ritz. But it was only when Hemingway threatened to commit suicide if she left that she realized how troubled the aging writer was--and how dependent he had become on her. In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Moveable Feast, even as Castro's revolution closed in. After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousands of manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest's funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway's son Gregory--and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood. From lunches with Orson Welles to midnight serenades by mysterious troubadours, from a rooftop encounter with Castro to numbing hospital vigils, Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways. This memoir, by turns luminous, enthralling, and devastating, is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway. / Valerie Hemingway is a freelance writer and editor. She lives in Bozeman, Montana." - Publisher.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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Valerie Hemingway is a freelance writer and editor. She lives in Bozeman, Montana. To schedule a speaking engagement, please contact American Program Bureau at www.apbspeakers.com
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 120082
- Title
- Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways
- Author
- Hemingway, Valerie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0345467337
- ISBN 13
- 9780345467331
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2004
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES;
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