Run with the Bull for a Week (Hemingway in My Life)

Author: Valerie Hemingway (Ireland), written by Wang Jing, translated by Ye Mingyan
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: Valerie, with concise and sharp words, portrays the mysterious later years of Hemingway and evokes compassion for those days. In Cuba, Valerie lived a quiet and leisurely life, tirelessly working on the final manuscript of The Journey of Life. Even when Castro's revolution was on the brink of outbreak, she didn’t provide any support with knives. After Hemingway’s suicide, she returned to Cuba with his widow to organize thousands of pages of manuscripts. When Valerie was an investigator for Newsweek, she met Hemingway’s son, Gregory—it was still at Hemingway’s funeral, and this encounter can be said to have once again completely altered the course of her life. As her husband couldn’t escape the demons that had tormented him since childhood, he eventually gave up resisting, while she was helpless to do anything about it. Their 21-year marriage ultimately ended. From lunch with Orson Welles to the mysterious serenade by a midnight folk singer, to her rooftop encounter with Castro, and her tireless nights at the hospital, she played an indispensable close role in the lives of two generations of the Hemingway family. This biography is both captivating and deeply enlightening, extremely, it narrates the joys, sorrows, and struggles of Valerie’s extraordinary life as a member of the Hemingway family.