Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just open your current read to a random page and share a few sentences. Be careful not to include spoilers!
Ohhh you guys, I almost tear up just thinking about this guy. I’m a big fan of Hemingway’s work, and an amateur scholar of his life; he was such a fascinating, complex, difficult, sad man. I adore him and I love to read what he wrote, and what others have written about him. And Hendrickson is doing it for me! This is a great book, aside from my personal obsession with the subject. More to come (I’ve gushed too much already). Now for your teaser, from page 287 of my galley copy.
To me, the mentions suggest that even or especially up in Michigan, even for an exuberant boy who’s not yet seventeen, getting your sleep is crucial, and not only for physical reasons. Without it, darkness is already visible, if just barely.
I like how he evokes the darkness here. As Hendrickson notes (and every Hem scholar knows!), not only Ernest himself would die by suicide, but also his father, two (or maybe three) of his siblings, and his granddaughter.
This quotation comes from an uncorrected advance proof and is subject to change.
Filed under: tuesday teasers | Tagged: biography, Hemingway, history, nonfiction |
pagesofjulia 
This looks like a good one!
Here’s mine:
http://50yearproject.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/teaser-tuesday-aug-23/
Love it! The title of this book alone is enough to convince me to read it! Thanks for sharing. If you get a chance, my teaser is here.
A chilling teaser and very revealing about Hemmingway’s character. I find his life to be a lot more interesting than his writing…no offense! He’s just not my cup of earl gray.
No worries! He can’t be everyone’s cuppa. Pretty polarizing guy, actually.
Yeah, he does seem like one of those love or hate authors with barely any middle-ground. I’m not giving up on him just yet and plan on reading “The Sun Also Rises” very soon.
Good – I hope you will. Love or hate, yes (mostly), and you don’t HAVE to come over to my side 🙂 but I hope you’ll read Sun and maybe The Old Man and the Sea if you haven’t. If you need some reading notes or anything I’m here!
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