Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than
any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also
Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established
Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth
century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won
the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored
in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn
Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality
and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting,
he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Patrick Wilson has starred on Broadway in Barefoot in the
Park, Oklahoma! (Tony Award nominated), and The Full Monty (Tony
nomination, Drama League Award). His film credits include Little
Children, Phantom of the Opera, Hard Candy, and the HBO Mini series
Angels in America (Golden Globe and Emmy nominations).
"Hemingway's farewell, mannered, thrilling, spoiled, pure, loyal to
its monumental maker and itself and with no knowledge of coming
darkness." -- James Salter, The Washington Post Book World
"Hemingway gives you the look and feel of places, the sensuous
brilliance of the world's offerings, the excitement of complex
relationships, the precision of a hunt or a breakfast, the tensions
of sexual intrigue . . . In short, The Garden of Eden is a feast."
-- Richard Stern, Chicago Tribune Books
"A miracle, a fresh slant on the old magic." -- John Updike, The
New Yorker
"Hemingway's farewell, mannered, thrilling, spoiled, pure, loyal to
its monumental maker and itself and with no knowledge of coming
darkness." -- James Salter, The Washington Post Book
World
"Hemingway gives you the look and feel of places, the sensuous
brilliance of the world's offerings, the excitement of complex
relationships, the precision of a hunt or a breakfast, the tensions
of sexual intrigue . . . In short, The Garden of Eden is a
feast." -- Richard Stern, Chicago Tribune Books
"A miracle, a fresh slant on the old magic." -- John Updike, The
New Yorker
An edited version of a narrative abandoned by the Nobel laureate, The Garden of Eden is about a young American couple in Europe on an extended honeymoon. PW stated that while the manuscript is of scholarly interest, it does not hold up as a ``bona fide Hemingway novel.'' (September)
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