Read about another book on the list.Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
by Paul Hendrickson
Purchased just before his career's meteoric ascent, Hemingway's boat, Pilar, likely inspired whole passages of The Old Man and the Sea and stayed with him throughout his success, three of his four marriages, and on down into his alcoholism, depression, and eventual suicide in 1961. Hemingway frequently employed his characters' relationships with their natural surrounding as metaphors for innocence threatened by the corrupting influence of human society. In Hendrickson's revealing book we get to know the Hemingway who was in love with the ocean, sailing from Key West to Cuba, with Pilar serving as inspiration and refuge along the way.
--Marshal Zeringue
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