Hemingway’s Boat
by Paul Hendrickson
Buy on AmazonAn assessment of the decades before Ernest Hemingway's suicide reveals the key life moments that occurred on board his beloved boat, Pilar, from celebrations with friends and romantic liaisons to the dissolutions of marriages and alcohol-marked withdrawals from society. By the author of the National Books Critics Circle-winning Sons of Mississippi.
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"I also have “Hemingway’s Boat,” by Paul Hendrickson — he seemed to use the sea as an inspirational tool, a retreat and an escape very much as I do."
By the Book: Pete Townshend · nytimes.com