True at First Light
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publish date: 07/01/2000
Description:
The last unpublished work by one of America's greatest writers, True at First Light is both a revealing self-portrait and a dramatic fictional chronicle of Hemingway's last African safari. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the 1953 trip to Kenya, it captures the thrill of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the landscape and explores the nuances of a complex marriage.
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As he recounts his wife Mary's obsessive pursuit of a prize lion, his own fascination with an eighteen-year-old African woman, and his encounters with the local population, Hemingway muses about writing, about the line between fact and fiction, and about the author's role in shaping "truth". Rich in humor and insight, and peppered with reminiscences of his days in Paris and Spain, True at First Light is "fine and sound, showing us a Hemingway...considering, as always, who he is, where he is, what we are, and what one might be".
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