Run with the Bull: Hemingway in My Life

Author: Valerie Hemingway
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Valerie, with her concise and sharp writing, has unveiled the mysterious later years of Hemingway, evoking sympathy for those days. In Cuba, Valerie lived a quiet and secluded life, tirelessly working on the final draft of The Last Days of a Great Man day and night, even when Castro's revolution was on the brink. After Hemingway's suicide, Valerie, along with Hemingway and his widow Mary, returned to Cuba to organize thousands of pages of manuscripts and secretly smuggled several works of art out of the country. When Valerie was an investigator for Newsweek, she met Hemingway's son Gregory—this encounter, which took place at Hemingway's funeral, can be said to have once again completely altered the course of her life. As her husband could not escape the demons that had tormented him since childhood, he eventually gave up resisting, while she was helpless to do anything about it. Their twenty-year marriage ultimately ended. From lunch with Orson Welles to the mysterious serenade by a folk singer at midnight, to her encounter with Castro on the rooftop, and her tireless nights at the hospital, Valerie Hemingway played an indispensable intimate role in the lives of two generations of the Hemingway family. This biography is both captivating and deeply enlightening, incredibly, it narrates the joys, sorrows, and struggles of Valerie's extraordinary life as a member of the Hemingway family. The book covers twenty-two chapters, including: Beginning and End, New Space: London and the European Continent, Separation and Promise, Return to Spain, Decline and Collapse, etc.