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doritobabe's review against another edition
5.0
4.5
How is it possible that Hotchner's memory is THAT good to get the script verbatim? it's not. It annoyed me that he claimed he did. Why not just say you knew the man well enough to predict his speech??
Story was sweet and emotional. I liked it mainly because of the book name dropping; one can guess Hemingway's feelings and motivations at the time of writing due to this text. In addition his mention of the Indian birth tale (which I read in Fiji as a part of a collection) which is my favorite story.
How is it possible that Hotchner's memory is THAT good to get the script verbatim? it's not. It annoyed me that he claimed he did. Why not just say you knew the man well enough to predict his speech??
Story was sweet and emotional. I liked it mainly because of the book name dropping; one can guess Hemingway's feelings and motivations at the time of writing due to this text. In addition his mention of the Indian birth tale (which I read in Fiji as a part of a collection) which is my favorite story.
geisttull's review against another edition
4.0
a very interesting story about Hemingway's love life. I've read a few of his books but did not know a lot about his life. this was enlightening. the audio was not very well done - don't know if it was the reader or the production value that was lacking, but i would recommend reading it yourself. My takeaway: Hemingway would have been fun to party with but not marry!
loper100's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
A fantastic read that sheds a great deal of light onto the emotional mind of one of my favorite writers.
judithdcollins's review against another edition
4.0
A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
A. E. Hotchner (Aaron Edward) American editor, novelist, playwright, biographer, and friend (Hotch), delivers an intimate inside look, “behind the scenes” of his close friend’s relationship, life, and photos-- HEMINGWAY IN LOVE: His Own Story, a love triangle between the famous much loved author, Ernest Hemingway—(Hadley and Pauline); his loves, his near death experiences, his regrets, and dreams.
Having met Ernest Hemingway some fifty years ago, in 1948, Hotchner became close friends until Hemingway’s death in 1961. In addition, Hotchner is also known for Papa Hemingway, his 1966 biography of Hemingway, whose work he had also adapted for plays and television.
From Paris, Venice, African Safaris, Key West, The Ritz, St Mary’s Hospital, the famous Hundred Day sentence, to his death in Idaho.
Hemingway had experienced a near-death experience in the second of the plane crashes, which upended him-- he was determined to tell Hotcher of a painful period in his life he had never discussed -- he wanted to unburden himself.
While Hemingway relived the harrowing experience –the agony of the period in Paris when he was writing The Sun Also Rises, while in love with two women simultaneously, an experience that would haunt him to his grave.
“Hadley was simple, old-fashioned, receptive, plain, virtuous; Pauline up to the second chic, stylish, aggressive, cunning, nontraditional.” Total opposites. He was in charge of Hadley; whereas, Pauline in charge of him.
Scott Fitzgerald had warned him he would eventually lose both women. However, because two women loved him-- Pauline had money, servants, fancy apartments, boats, houses, and the fact he was tired of poverty at times, he was flattered by the attention of two women. However, was unaware of the dangers of his actions, until it was too late. He lost the one woman he would always love and cherish.
Hotchner reflects back to his private conversations with his friend “Papa”, while withholding some of these conversations years earlier, out of respect for Mary. He reiterates the account is not a buried memory dredged up; however, the story he recounted over the course of their travels, entrusted to him with a purpose. He has finally released it to the world. He shares their stories and adventures from France, Italy, Cuba, Florida Keys, and Spain. Ernest’s zest for life was infectious.
The book opens in 1961, it is the second time Hemingway was a patient in the psychiatric section under the care of doctors from the nearby Mayo Clinic at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. For six weeks he had not been able to receive visitors or make phone calls.
Back then electric shock was brutally administered, the electric current projected into the patient’s brain without benefit of an anesthetic, a piece of wood clenched between his teeth as he writhed in torturous pain. The Mayo doctors had diagnosed Ernest as suffering from a depressive persecutory condition and had prescribed the ECTs, in an attempt to diminish it.
Mary was Ernest's fourth wife at the time. They had celebrated Ernest’s 60th birthday, which was his last good year. The next upcoming year his paranoia deepened convinced his car and house were being bugged by the FBI and that the IRS were auditing his bank accounts. Mary was distraught. (Some of this information later came to light after his death, which was indeed true). Hotchner witnessed over the next upcoming year, abrupt and puzzling changes in Ernest’s demeanor.
Hemingway questioned what everyone was giving him at age sixty-one. The only thing someone of his age cares about is being healthy, working at his calling, eating and drinking with people he cares about, good sex, traveling to places he loves. He is being denied all of this. Why should he stick around? They were all after him, from the hall phone to the Nurse Susan…all reporting to the FBI.
Out of Hemingway’s four wives, Hadley Richardson, his first wife, is the one he fondly recalls in the book. While they were married, he began an affair with femme fatale, model, Pauline. A total opposite from his wife, Pauline befriended Hadley and interjected herself into their lives. Hadley gave him the famous 100 days to make his decision between the two women.
However, Hadley threw in the towel with a divorce before the hundred days. Aggressive and persistent, Pauline continued to pursue Hemingway, until Hadley asked for a divorce. By this time, Ernest gave in, as Pauline used her wealthy financial status and cunning ways, to seal the deal. With the birth of their children, he was driven further away. There is not much mention of third wife, Martha, except a way to escape Pauline.
The book also accounts and shares photography of Hemingway’s safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
Ernest, a complex man was pulled between the two women at the time; however, his regrets were leaving the one real love of his life, as readers hear of intimate details of the two women, as well as adventures, travel, and conversations between the two friends over drinks recalling earlier days. From his literature, traumas, his declining health, to his other famous friends such as Scott Fitzgerald and Gary Cooper.
For those Key West fans, you will enjoy pulling up a bar stool, the stories over drinks at the famous Sloppy Joes, where Hemingway was a former co-owner (silent partner) with Joe Russell, with a reserved table. From hunts, friends, art, literature, fishing, skiing, horseback riding, gaming, boating, culture, travel, the Fitzgerald’s, the Murphy’s, booze, good food, sex, loves and women.
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”—Ernest Hemingway
Hotchner, a natural storyteller, delivers an admirable account of his friend's thoughts. Hemingway and literature fans will appreciate the inside look at this gifted novelist; the highs and lows, of a complex man, and the raging storms; his loves, both personally and professionally.
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A. E. Hotchner (Aaron Edward) American editor, novelist, playwright, biographer, and friend (Hotch), delivers an intimate inside look, “behind the scenes” of his close friend’s relationship, life, and photos-- HEMINGWAY IN LOVE: His Own Story, a love triangle between the famous much loved author, Ernest Hemingway—(Hadley and Pauline); his loves, his near death experiences, his regrets, and dreams.
Having met Ernest Hemingway some fifty years ago, in 1948, Hotchner became close friends until Hemingway’s death in 1961. In addition, Hotchner is also known for Papa Hemingway, his 1966 biography of Hemingway, whose work he had also adapted for plays and television.
From Paris, Venice, African Safaris, Key West, The Ritz, St Mary’s Hospital, the famous Hundred Day sentence, to his death in Idaho.
Hemingway had experienced a near-death experience in the second of the plane crashes, which upended him-- he was determined to tell Hotcher of a painful period in his life he had never discussed -- he wanted to unburden himself.
While Hemingway relived the harrowing experience –the agony of the period in Paris when he was writing The Sun Also Rises, while in love with two women simultaneously, an experience that would haunt him to his grave.
“Hadley was simple, old-fashioned, receptive, plain, virtuous; Pauline up to the second chic, stylish, aggressive, cunning, nontraditional.” Total opposites. He was in charge of Hadley; whereas, Pauline in charge of him.
Scott Fitzgerald had warned him he would eventually lose both women. However, because two women loved him-- Pauline had money, servants, fancy apartments, boats, houses, and the fact he was tired of poverty at times, he was flattered by the attention of two women. However, was unaware of the dangers of his actions, until it was too late. He lost the one woman he would always love and cherish.
Hotchner reflects back to his private conversations with his friend “Papa”, while withholding some of these conversations years earlier, out of respect for Mary. He reiterates the account is not a buried memory dredged up; however, the story he recounted over the course of their travels, entrusted to him with a purpose. He has finally released it to the world. He shares their stories and adventures from France, Italy, Cuba, Florida Keys, and Spain. Ernest’s zest for life was infectious.
The book opens in 1961, it is the second time Hemingway was a patient in the psychiatric section under the care of doctors from the nearby Mayo Clinic at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. For six weeks he had not been able to receive visitors or make phone calls.
Back then electric shock was brutally administered, the electric current projected into the patient’s brain without benefit of an anesthetic, a piece of wood clenched between his teeth as he writhed in torturous pain. The Mayo doctors had diagnosed Ernest as suffering from a depressive persecutory condition and had prescribed the ECTs, in an attempt to diminish it.
Mary was Ernest's fourth wife at the time. They had celebrated Ernest’s 60th birthday, which was his last good year. The next upcoming year his paranoia deepened convinced his car and house were being bugged by the FBI and that the IRS were auditing his bank accounts. Mary was distraught. (Some of this information later came to light after his death, which was indeed true). Hotchner witnessed over the next upcoming year, abrupt and puzzling changes in Ernest’s demeanor.
Hemingway questioned what everyone was giving him at age sixty-one. The only thing someone of his age cares about is being healthy, working at his calling, eating and drinking with people he cares about, good sex, traveling to places he loves. He is being denied all of this. Why should he stick around? They were all after him, from the hall phone to the Nurse Susan…all reporting to the FBI.
Out of Hemingway’s four wives, Hadley Richardson, his first wife, is the one he fondly recalls in the book. While they were married, he began an affair with femme fatale, model, Pauline. A total opposite from his wife, Pauline befriended Hadley and interjected herself into their lives. Hadley gave him the famous 100 days to make his decision between the two women.
However, Hadley threw in the towel with a divorce before the hundred days. Aggressive and persistent, Pauline continued to pursue Hemingway, until Hadley asked for a divorce. By this time, Ernest gave in, as Pauline used her wealthy financial status and cunning ways, to seal the deal. With the birth of their children, he was driven further away. There is not much mention of third wife, Martha, except a way to escape Pauline.
The book also accounts and shares photography of Hemingway’s safari to Africa, where he was almost killed in two successive plane crashes that left him in pain or ill health for much of his remaining life. Hemingway maintained permanent residences in Key West, Florida, (1930s) and Cuba (1940s and 1950s), and in 1959, he bought a house in Ketchum, Idaho, where he committed suicide in the summer of 1961.
Ernest, a complex man was pulled between the two women at the time; however, his regrets were leaving the one real love of his life, as readers hear of intimate details of the two women, as well as adventures, travel, and conversations between the two friends over drinks recalling earlier days. From his literature, traumas, his declining health, to his other famous friends such as Scott Fitzgerald and Gary Cooper.
For those Key West fans, you will enjoy pulling up a bar stool, the stories over drinks at the famous Sloppy Joes, where Hemingway was a former co-owner (silent partner) with Joe Russell, with a reserved table. From hunts, friends, art, literature, fishing, skiing, horseback riding, gaming, boating, culture, travel, the Fitzgerald’s, the Murphy’s, booze, good food, sex, loves and women.
“All things truly wicked start from an innocence.”—Ernest Hemingway
Hotchner, a natural storyteller, delivers an admirable account of his friend's thoughts. Hemingway and literature fans will appreciate the inside look at this gifted novelist; the highs and lows, of a complex man, and the raging storms; his loves, both personally and professionally.
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kalbone's review against another edition
5.0
I can't recall the last time I read a biographical book so eloquently written. I've always found the writers of the Parisian 20s and 30s an interesting bunch. Hemingway and Fitzgerald more so than anyone else. A.E. Hotchner coveys his relationship with Ernest Hemingway beautifully and does an incredible job of conveying how heartbroken Hemingway was over loving with Hadley and and Pauline at the same time. It ties in his time in Paris and in Key West as well as some of his relationship with Fitzgerald. It's the book Hemingway fans want to read. If you want to get to know the man behind A Farewell to Arms, Hotchner is a wonderful author to explore. He knew Hemingway as a person and not just as a writer. It's beneficial to know what's happening in a writer's life as they are writing the stories that make them legends. This book does just that. It explores the relationship between Hemingway and Hadley, the woman who loved him before he was famous and then moves on to his relationship with Pauline, the woman who was drowning in money and saw an exciting identity for herself with Hemingway and would do anything in her power to find that identity. It's a heartbreaking tale that explains a lot about who Hemingway was and how the stories came about. I highly suggest Hemingway In Love: His Own Story. I will also certainly be reading the rest of Hochner's works.
bibliorey's review against another edition
4.0
i think we all collectively agree that hemingway was shit and there was no way he could justify his actions towards what he did to hadley.
nevertheless, this was an enjoyable read for me. hotchner’s writing was truly enticing to me. i wanted to devour this whole book in one night. alas, i had to prioritise what matters first.
it was so interesting getting to peek inside hemingway and hotchner’s friendship along with hemingway’s constant turbulence in his love life. hadley truly did deserved better and i could never understand hemingway’s desire of wanting and loving two women at the same time (which i 100% think pauline is a major homewrecker having read this account). was hadley not enough? was the life he had with hadley, the family that they built, was that not satisfaction enough that he needed someone new?
these are the questions that i repeatedly ask as i progressed through the book. but reading of hemingway’s deteriorating mental health truly hit the sympathetic nerve in me. sure his love life is messed up and that may have contributed to the decaying of his mental health but reading hemingway talk of suicidal intentions and his depression sends me a melancholic wave that i never thought it would. so if you are interested in giving this memoir a go, please bear in mind such trigger warnings (talks of mental health, suicidal ideations, cheating etc.).
nevertheless, this was an enjoyable read for me. hotchner’s writing was truly enticing to me. i wanted to devour this whole book in one night. alas, i had to prioritise what matters first.
it was so interesting getting to peek inside hemingway and hotchner’s friendship along with hemingway’s constant turbulence in his love life. hadley truly did deserved better and i could never understand hemingway’s desire of wanting and loving two women at the same time (which i 100% think pauline is a major homewrecker having read this account). was hadley not enough? was the life he had with hadley, the family that they built, was that not satisfaction enough that he needed someone new?
these are the questions that i repeatedly ask as i progressed through the book. but reading of hemingway’s deteriorating mental health truly hit the sympathetic nerve in me. sure his love life is messed up and that may have contributed to the decaying of his mental health but reading hemingway talk of suicidal intentions and his depression sends me a melancholic wave that i never thought it would. so if you are interested in giving this memoir a go, please bear in mind such trigger warnings (talks of mental health, suicidal ideations, cheating etc.).
smderitis's review against another edition
4.0
Loved reading a more condensed, focused depiction of Hemingway’s life. Through his own words and the eyes of a friend, this feels so personal and true, and doesn’t get bogged down with too many facts like a biography would.