With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba

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Papa's protege.......2004-11-03

The best quality of this book is the clean language worthy of Hemingway. Samuelson had an ear for exact quoting. His manuscript lay in a trunk until after his death, when his daughter found it, and decided to publish. Lucky us.

An important book about Hemingway.......1999-09-19

It is astonishing that this book is so little known. Here is a memoir which records Hemingway's insights on writing as given to his only pupil, a young writer/hobo who shows up one day at Hemingway's Key West house hoping for a few words of advice. "He left me with that damned marvelous feeling you can have only once in a lifetime if you are a young man who wants to become a writer and you have just met the man you admire as the greatest writer alive and you know instinctively that he is already your friend." Impulsively Hemingway hires the twenty-two-year-old "tramp" to guard his new boat, the Pilar. Samuelson carefully records Hemingway's thoughts on writing (including a "mandatory" reading list for the young, aspiring writer). Not only does the book illuminate Hemingway, his life, his fishing, his family and his work, but it also tells the story of a fascinating individual who spent a year with him.

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Hemingway's Key West
Stuart B. McIver
Manufacturer: Pineapple Press (FL)
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ASIN: 156164241X

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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........2006-08-12

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.

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colorful and worthy
This will become one of your favorite Heminway Bios
Papa- Hemingway in key west
Insight on Hemingway's Key West Years
Insight on Hemingway's Key West Years

Papa: Hemingway in Key West
James McLendon
Manufacturer: Ketch and Yawl Press LLC
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ASIN: 0911607072

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colorful and worthy.......2002-12-12

another well-written bio on the one and only ernest hemingway. key west was/is a colorful place and so was ernie. i enjoyed this one. damn near felt like almost being there and enjoying a beer with ernie.

This will become one of your favorite Heminway Bios.......2001-02-17

Of the many books about Hemingway, this is one of the most enjoyable I have yet found.

I discovered it when I was living in Eanes Lane, about 2 houses away from the Hemingway House, in Key West.

This book is one of the few that is really able to convey the atmoshphere of the place--imagine how quiet it must have been down there in the 30's, before A1A connected the Keys and EVERYBODY could get down there; Think of the parties Papa threw for his pals who came to visit; the sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal weather; the sunsets, the fishing, the original Sloppy's.

I lived in Key Wierd for a couple years, and love it, but Papa's days MUST have been THE days! --Imagine bar hopping with Dos Passos or being able to sail over to Havana--the music! The nightclubs! The beaches! The Girls!--I digress, but you get the point. The recent release called "Hemingway's France" does very well describing the atmoshere of his Paris days. "Papa, Hemingway in Key West" does the same justice to the very productive and legend-shaping time he spent in Key West.

As well, there are several pages featuring a very good selection of photos from those days; including a couple black and white reproductions of great Waldo Peirce paintings in his typically loose, energetic style.

This is one of my favorite Hemingway references, and I turn to it repeatedly.

This is the first book review I've ever written, and it is because I know Hemingway fans will really enjoy Mr. McLendon's book.

Papa- Hemingway in key west.......2000-04-20

The best book I have ever read on the life and times of Hemingway. Extremely insightfull into the man and his life after key west.

Insight on Hemingway's Key West Years.......2000-04-03

After reading Hemingway over the years, it was both refreshing and interesting to learn more about him as a father and a man. This biography appeared well researched and flattering with a personal look at it's subject. The authors intent seemed to be explaining how Hemmingway became known so dearly as Papa and at the same time provide an historical and informative narrative of the man and his years in Key West. Though it left a few unanswered questions about his years on the key, this book keeps you intrigued and looking forward to what comes next. Any fan of the legendary "Papa" would definitley enjoy this work and probably learn a little something along the way.

Insight on Hemingway's Key West Years.......2000-04-03

Ernest Hemingway in Key West: A Guide (Famous Footsteps Series)

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basic primer on Papa in Key West just as advertised

Ernest Hemingway in Key West: A Guide (Famous Footsteps Series)
Marsha Bellavance-Johnson , and Lee Bellavance
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basic primer on Papa in Key West just as advertised.......2006-03-09

Having visited Hemingways home a couple of months ago I was drawn to this small volume on the writer's time in Key West.
The tiny book is as advertised; however, there are many books available to give much more complete accounts of the 30's in Key West and how they connected to Hemingway. The book is as advertised and simply covers some of the history and background with nice drawings and photos.

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Under the Banyan Tree
Toni De Palma
Manufacturer: Holiday House
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ASIN: 0823419657

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Irenaâ€™s not sure where sheâ€™s headed when she runs away from homeâ€”she just wants to leave the trailer she shared with her mamma and daddy far behind. When she stumbles upon the Banyan Tree motel, something tells her itâ€™s exactly where sheâ€™s meant to be. The elderly owner, Carlotta, welcomes Irena, and the Banyan soon begins to feel like home. But trouble follows Irena wherever she goes, and the Banyan is no different: A mysterious guest, money problems, and secrets from her past soon threaten the stability of her new life. This moving story from a talented new voice revels in lifeâ€™s joys and pains, and uncovers just what it really means to be a family.

With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba

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With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba
Arnold Samuelson
Manufacturer: Thorndike Press
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Some tasty snacks but leaves your tongue supporating.
Deliciously further your love/hate Hemingway affair!
Forget your Inner Child! Embrace Your Inner Hemingway!

I Killed Hemingway
William McCranor Henderson
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Was Ernest Hemingway a plagiarist? And was his suicide, in fact, a cold-blooded murder? So says "Pappy" Markham of Key West, an irascible old derelict with a sixty-year grudge against his alleged pal and larcenous protege, Ernest Hemingway. Pappy's sensational "memoir", I Killed Hemingway, becomes an instant best-seller and a riotous hit on the talk show circuit. But as history begins to revise itself, Pappy's ghostwriter-washed-up hack Elliott McGuire-attempts to undo the monster he has created, with wildly unpredictable results.

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Some tasty snacks but leaves your tongue supporating........1999-01-16

In a deeply recursive labyrinth of irony and its handmaiden: self-loathing, the hero, the book, the author and idea all try to draw life from the corpse of a celebrity. The best phrase in the book: "kill your inner hemingway." Unfortunately, it is the best phrase in the book.

This seems to be an assiduously fleshed out premise invented in a beer haze during a literary workshop venting session...a self-referential tour de force in a mileu so exceedingly small that its only member spends all his time trying to see the back of his own head without using a mirror.

Hendersons' idea of a roman-a-clef is to disguise "Geraldo" as a character named Yugo, AND still have Geraldo in the book. Talk about killer misdirection!

The phallic obsessions reveal an undigested freudian premise despite the throwaway Jungian catch phrases. As bitterly self-deprecating as it seems to be, it still is worthy of bitter deprecation. Even hemingway, whose world was so flat that nematodes ducked when they crawled through it, doesn't get any lower.

If you really hate Hemingway, don't read this book, because you will feel genuinely sorry for the scoundral afterwards. If you like Hemingway read this book, and you will hate Henderson and his cohort of patronizing, one trick lit-flitters for their disservice to the very idea of the word, indeed.

Some very funny stuff, but the ending is weak and completely unsatisfying. Good effort at creating female characters falters in every case, and no one but the protagonist is more than a few centimeters deep.

Deliciously further your love/hate Hemingway affair!.......1998-08-04

Damn good book! Henderson masterfully epitomizes the academic love/hate relationship that must occur between the failed scholar and the great author. The protagonist, Elliot McGuire, does an excellent job of self-antagonizing over his near miss with greatness as a Hemingway scholar. McGuire believes he has finally overcome his past and wants to publish a book of his own about his new form of therapy and empowerment -- "LifeForms". McGuire's publisher lays waste to his dreams of pop psychology. Eric "Pappy" Markham claims to have killed Ernest Hemingway and has sent off a badly written 5 page teaser, outlining details of the supposed murder and claiming the reasoning behind it was that everything Hemingway had ever been was because of Pappy. McGuire's publisher can't wait to put the book (a guaranteed best selling biography!) on the market and sends him down to edit. We'll just say that "editting" takes on a whole new meaning while Pa! ppy sets off McGuire's "Hemophobia" and other bleaker aspects....

Henderson manages to take a poke at every aspect of popular culture, from best-sellers to TV talk shows to academic elitism. I found it all to be wickedly on the money. A must read!

Forget your Inner Child! Embrace Your Inner Hemingway!.......1997-01-31

This is simply great stuff. Henderson's protagonist, Eliot McGuire, is a recovering Hemingway scholar/alcoholic, and he's not only fallen, he's plummeted off the wagon on both counts. Stuck in the quagmire of negotiations with his publishing company for his barely cohesive life-improvement system, LifeForms, Eliot, hoping to sneak his way into their good graces, opts to do the company a quick favor by flying down to Key West to bid on the tell-all memoir by one "Pappy" Markham, a shadowy figure of the "Lost Generation" set, who claims that Hemingway died not by his own hand but rather by Pappy's shotgun, payback for plagaristic treachery supposedly committed by Hemingway long ago. Eliot soon finds that the supposed manuscript is no longer than a page, and takes the opportunity to ghostwrite this doubtful story for a quick buck. Henderson realizes the synergistic possibilities of his themes (the way men treat each other, the way the publishing world seems to mistreat everyone, the way everyone has treated Hemingway's legend to the exclusion of his real persona) and utilizes them to full effect. Bold posteuring gives way to deceitful maneuvering gives way to more success and more psychosis than Eliot ever bargained for. An incredibly fun read

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HEMINGWAY IN KEY WEST
Marsha with Lee Bellavance, Illustrated by Gosney, Allison Bellavance-Johnson
Manufacturer: Ketchum ID: The Computer Lab, 1987
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Hemingway in Key West: A Video Biography & House Tour (Vhs)

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Hemingway in Key West: A Video Biography & House Tour (Vhs)

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Home And Museum Of Ernest Hemingway
Werner J. Bertsch
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Halloween, a college bonfire, and a talking raven

Quoth the Raven
Jane Haddam
Manufacturer: Crimeline
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A Stillness in Bethlehem (Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries)

ASIN: 0553292552
Release Date: 1991-09-01

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Halloween, a college bonfire, and a talking raven.......2002-12-17

The first person Father Tibor Kasparian has really hated since escaping from the Soviet Union is Dr. Donegal Steele, the pig who's the fly in the ointment for most of Independence College. Otherwise, teaching a semester of philosophy at Independence is a dream come true for Father Tibor: it's even what he was trained to do, once upon a time, even though teaching philosophy is what first got him into *so* much trouble. Father Tibor even has his first experience with pets, as Independence College has tame deer and even a talking raven (named Lenore, of course).

Two days before the Halloween bonfire - that is, two days before Tibor's friend Gregor Demarkian is due to make a guest lecture - Steele has disappeared. One half-joking rumor is that Jack Carroll, the soon-to-be-self-made law student whose tuition is cobbled together from scholarships and 30 hours a week in a body shop, finally beat the stuffing out of Steele for slandering Chessey Flint, Jack's girl. Steele's sexual harassment of various faculty and students is breathtakingly outrageous, and it doesn't seem to be blocking him from making a move for the post of chairman of the history department. Dr. Alice Elkinson, the youngest tenured faculty member and with the most serious reputation, would get it on merit if merit were considered, and her fiancee Ken Crockett would get it if the historical society got a vote, but Steele has written a popular (though tripey) book. Katherine Branch and her shadow, Vivi Wollman, are fretting that they are now professors without a department, since Women's Studies has had neither the popularity nor the academic rigor to survive at Independence, at least the way *they* teach it. The only person who is interested in locating Steele is Maryanne Veer, the department secretary; like everyone else, she doesn't *want* to see Steele, but a professor skipping out on his lecture and office hour schedule makes problems.

And when Gregor Demarkian and Bennis Hannaford are greeted with a case of lye poisoning over lunch in the Independence College cafeteria, it's Maryanne Veer who's the victim. Although she survives the attack, the damage done to her throat and voicebox effectively silences her for some time to come. And it's definitely an attack: the local sheriff can testify that Maryanne, having come from the wrong side of the tracks, knows too much about lye to attempt suicide with it; no other food in the cafeteria is contaminated, which rules out accident; and whatever food on her tray was spiked with lye disappeared while Gregor was giving first aid with his expertise on poisons.

Gregor and Tibor both have problems dealing with the students' childish antics and the other aspects of Halloween, each for his different reasons. Neither has much use for immaturity, and both have seen too much real violence to enjoy its illusion. (Gregor, of course, is a veteran of the FBI. Tibor, who up to this point in the series had been a peripheral supporting player, escaped from religious persecution in the old Soviet Union; his character, fleshed out much more here than in previous books, is definitely *not* just comic relief. 'Christianity and Constitutional Law, that was Father Tibor Kasparian.') Even Cavanaugh Street's illusions of Halloween drive Gregor up the wall, although for different reasons: nobody takes reasonable precautions. Only Bennis Hannaford, who is just now officially moving to Cavanaugh Street, takes Gregor seriously, and she says Lida and the other ladies only pat her on the head and say, Yes, dear - now that boy you were out with, is he responsible? :)

Finally, a brief overview of the supporting players. Katherine Branch is not a sympathetic character, but on the other hand, the parts of the story shown from her viewpoint make it clear that she's a phony. It's hard to believe a creep like Steele could survive so long in a public position, let alone on a college campus, even though it's his first semester: he's committed slander and sexual harassment, including *groping* a female student he didn't even know in front of a large audience. The story is saved because that's openly part of the problem Steele creates for other people - that he manages to get away with all the slimy things he does, and smear the muck on his victims rather than himself. The relationship between Chessey and Jack in the face of Steele's allegations is a major subplot: how to effectively quash Steele's rumor campaign against Chessey. Jack, as president of students, is also able to give Gregor some of the real lowdown on campus crime.

Good story, allowing for the fact that Steele couldn't get away with his antics unscathed on a real campus.

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Quoth the raven;: A little journey into the primitive
Oliver Maxson Salisbury
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10 Titles in the Gregor Demarkian Series: Not a Creature Was Stirring; Precious Blood; Quoth the Raven; Great Day for the Deadly; Feast of Murder; Stillness in Bethlehem; Murder Superior; Fountain of Death; Bleeding Hearts; And One to Die On (Set of 10)
Jane Haddam
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Double Take / The Fingered Man (Quoth the Raven)
Mel / Fischer, Bruno Colton
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Quoth the Raven
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Quoth the Raven
E. V. L. , and G. M.
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"An Unofficial History of the War" A satire of life on the homefront in Britian during the Great War. Hilarious with delightful and copious cartoons.

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QUOTH THE RAVEN
O. M. Salisbury
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Quoth the Raven
Bruno Fischer
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Mystery.

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Brave Men--Secret War
A Must Read For Military Aviation Enthusiasts
A great read about what really went on in Laos

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Jim Roper
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ASIN: 1592862160

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Quoth the Raven is a no-nonsense memoir of wild missions flown in spotter planes over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in 1970 and in the secret war in Barrel Roll (northern Laos).

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Brave Men--Secret War.......2005-10-11

This effort by Jim Roper is one of those rare books that tells a story of such compelling interest that one is captivated from the first word. The battle the US waged against the Communists in Laos is still one of America's "Forgotten Wars" and what Jim does is give the war definition and reveals its human demension. The flying narrative is absolutely riveting--having personally flown with both Walt and Pterodactyl FACS in 0-1E Bird Dogs along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, I was instantly transported back in time some 35 years to those terror filled moments among hours of tedium...this book is FOR REAL!!! Jim does not sugar coat anything, relating the horrors of fellow FACS dying in a number of shoot downs and accidents with grim reality. His struggles with higher ups removed both physically and mentally from the harsh truths faced by the FACS at the point of the spear make for both entertaining and ultimately frustrating reading--as the reader shares the author's angst with stupidity and lack of zeal to successfully accomplish the mission by his superiors. He gives a great look at how these mostly unknown and underappreciated warriors battled austere conditions, with humor and alcohol as their primary weapons while on the ground, and bravery and determination while in the air. This book is a great read and also an excellent primer on the plight of Laos during the US presence in South East Asia.

A Must Read For Military Aviation Enthusiasts.......2005-02-26

This is a fantastic book about an Air Force pilot's tour of duty as a Forward Air Controller in Vietnam and Laos. It's one of the best personal accounts I've read about the air war in Southeast Asia. The author's writing style puts you right in the cockpit of the propeller driven O-1 and O-2 aircraft on dangerous missions over the Ho Chi Minh trail and against PAVN and Pathet Lao troops in other parts of Laos. It's amazing that these small aircraft were flown at low level in the vicinity of small arms and anti aircraft guns. If you've ever flown a small Cessna or Piper you can appreciate a lot of the author's descriptions of what it was like to fly these aircraft. I also enjoyed the author's descriptions of what the pilots did on their off-duty time. They worked hard and played hard also. The title of the book might be a little misleading as less than half of it deals with his time as a Raven but overall it's a great book and I had a wonderful time reading it.

A great read about what really went on in Laos.......2003-02-26

Jim Roper has done a wonderful job of getting out some of the incredible stories of missions flown by our pilots in the secret war in Laos. Having flown those missions myself as a Covey FAC, 1968-69, I can vouch for the authenticity of his book. I for one highly recommend his book.
A fellow Covey FAC and former Raven, Larry Ratts, sent me the paperback copy and I,m now ordering the hardcover version for my library.
Thanks Jim for writing the book and Larry for the gift of the book
Don Fulton / Covey 538

Quoth the raven "nevermore", or, Much ado about nothing: An anthology of negation

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