SAN DIEGO, Nov. 26, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Learning the traits and discovering the elements that made a legend can be an intriguing experience. This proved true with the real-life experience of author David Nuffer as he discovers about the great Ernest Hemingway and the kind of life he lived. Know the person behind the legendary Hemingway as Xlibris releases Nuffer's new book The Best Friend I Ever Had: Revelations about Ernest Hemingway from those who knew him.
A work reflecting life itself, The Best Friend I Ever Had talks about the people Nuffer has known for the past thirty years - notably people who knew the legendary Ernest Hemingway. Among them are Hemingway's wife, Mary; his son, Patrick; his friends in Cuba at mid-century; a jai-alai champion; and his best friend in Ketchum, Idaho, over the twenty-two years that he visited or lived there. Their comments and reminiscences about the literary icon are new and revealing, sometimes provocative, sometimes inflammatory.
Readers will also find a rich collection of photographs and documents never before published, including unreleased letters to Hemingway from his doctors at the Mayo Clinic following his shock treatments there in 1960 and 1961. In the words of one academic researcher, "I thought, and was told, that the Mayo file was closed and unavailable." This book proves otherwise. More importantly, the text includes eight chapters of remembrances plus a final chapter with four capsule entries, including the story of the discovery of Hemingway's Toronto Star typewriter. Ultimately, you will find "The Best Friend" a font of fresh information that discloses the complexity of the man behind the legend.
For more information on The Best Friend I Ever Had: Revelations about Ernest Hemingway from those who knew him, please visit Xlibris.com or call (888) 795-4274 today.
About the Author
An ardent interest in Ernest Hemingway has been a sideline occupation for David Nuffer since 1958. The occupation that pays the bills is public relations. He's been in the business for more than fifty years, and in 1974 founded his own firm, where he now serves as board chairman. Nuffer's enthusiasm for Hemingway began with the reading of "Death in the Afternoon," which he deems the best treatise on bullfighting ever written. He's collected first editions of nearly all of the author's books, and has visited more than one-hundred sixty Hemingway-related sites in Canada, Cuba, Europe, and the U.S., including places the author was born, lived, worked, and died. Nuffer's The Walkable Feast - Five Cafe-to-Cafe Walks to the Places of Ernest Hemingway in His Early Years in Paris was published in 1999.
The Best Friend I Ever Had * by David Nuffer
Revelations about Ernest Hemingway from those who knew him
Publication Date: November 24, 2008
Trade Paperback; $19.99; 170 pages; 978-1-4363-7028-8
Cloth Hardback; $29.99; 170 pages; 978-1-4363-7029-5
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