Ernest Hemingway was arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, t
he Nobel Prize-winning author of such classics as For Whom the Bell Tolls, The S
un Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, and a man who lived his life with as much
passion and intensity as many of the characters in his novels. With exceptional
insight, Anthony Burgess traces Hemingway's singular life: from complacent child
hood to the horrors of the First and Second World Wars to the glamour of Paris i
n the '20s; from Civil War Spain to the excitements of African safari and, final
ly, the sombre last years in Cuba. Burgess's vivid portrait is unflinching yet f
ull of empathy: essential reading for all Hemingway fans.
