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Hemingway's Key West | 
 enlarge | Author: Stuart B. Mciver
Publisher: Pineapple Press (FL)
Category: Book
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 351470
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Pages: 166
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 156164241X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9781561642410
ASIN: 156164241X
Publication Date: November 2001
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Includes a 2-hour walking tour of Key West, plus a tour of Hemingway s favorite places in Cuba The only place in the United States that Hemingway could really call home after he started writing was the tropical island of Key West. During his decade here in the 1930s, he acquired his famed macho persona as Papa, the biggest Big Daddy of them all. This vivid portrait of Ernest Hemingway s Key West reveals both Hemingway, the writer, and Hemingway, the macho, hard-drinking sportsman. His Key West years turned out to be his most productive: he finished A Farewell to Arms, started For Whom the Bell Tolls, and wrote several other books, including Green Hills of Africa, Death in the Afternoon, and To Have and Have Not. He also turned out some of his best short stories. There was plenty of time left over for eating, drinking, fighting, fishing, chasing women, and hanging out with "the Mob." On the two-hour walking tour, you will explore his favorite Key West haunts. This updated edition also details the author s exploits in Bimini and Cuba. Hemingway spent the last years of his life in Cuba, and it was here he overcame several demons accidents, failing health, depression to write The Old Man and the Sea, for which he won both a Pulitzer and a Nobel Prize in Literature. Tour his top Cuban hangouts.
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 I've read better high school research papers. August 12, 2006
Brad Ross (Winfield, KS United States)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Although this work is informative for anyone going to Key West to visit Hemingway sites, McIver's book reads like a confused hodgepodge. This would not be a problem if the chapters addressed Heminway's time in the Keys chronologically. However, the facts seem to skip around. Many chapters repeat events addressed earlier in other chapters making it appear as if each one was written by a different author without the benefit of reading each others's work, and then combined into one book. McIver's research on Hemingway seems to be of quick, incomplete work with sources easily obtained and poorly investigated.
 History & literature neatly combined November 23, 2007
Thomas Hofer (New Orleans, LA USA)
Stuart McIver's HEMINGWAY'S KEY WEST is a classic example of history and literature neatly combined. McIver intends to just describe Hemingway's life in Key West, however, he also tells a lot about Hemingway as a family man (a role which Hemingway did not play well) and as a writer. His description of Hemingway's life and actions in Key West is done so well that it helps the reader picture himself in Key West at the time Hemingway lived there himself. McIver also does a splendid job in describing how Hemingway influenced Key West beyond the time he lived there. I have been to Key West twice, and on both occasions, I visited Sloppy Joe's Bar which is full of "Hemingway paraphernalia" - when you are at Sloppy Joe's, it is as if Hemingway were right there with you.
 Unbelievably bad February 4, 2008
Christopher J. Berger
I think a freshman in high school could've written a more cohesive book. The author repeats the same thing just about every chapter. The book probably contains a magazine article in information, if you can find it. It boggles my mind that this was printed, obviously no one edited it.
 Read It Before You Go September 12, 2008
Larry Rochelle
Hemingway's Key West provide a quick, interesting read for those traveling to Key West. The island's atmosphere and history twinkles like a Hemingway smile. And the reader gets quick but enlightening peeks at Hemingway's temper, his wives, his buddies (The Mob) and his fishing techniques.
Not for the library-bound scholar, this book treats the reader to the highlights of Key West and Hemingway. You'll get in-depth descriptions of his haunts. You'll find out tidbits about his life (a converted Catholic, a sometimes vindictive right-wing Republican, and a man willing to begin various love affairs instantly).
Overall, a fine read.
by Larry Rochelle, author of the hurricane thriller, GULF GHOST
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