Ernest Hemingway on Writing [Publisher's Review Slip laid-In]

Phillips, Larry W. - Editor

ISBN 10: 0684181193 / ISBN 13: 9780684181196

Edité par Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1984

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A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with the original publisher s review slip laid in, dated August 7, 1984. 7.25 inches tall; xiii [1] 3-147 pages. Review slip crisp, showing light toning along top edge. An exceptionally well-preserved advance/review copy example.From the estate of Horizon Books publisher Ben Raeburn that passed to his partner Patricia. Editor Larry W. Phillips compiled Hemingway s reflections on the craft of writing from his letters, essays, and published works an essential posthumous insight into Hemingway s disciplined approach and minimalistic prose style. The presence of the Scribner s review slip underscores its place in the book s early promotional history and marks it as a collectible association copy for both Hemingway and Scribner collectors. Subjects: Ernest Hemingway, Literary Technique, Author Quotations, First Edition, Review Copy, 20th-Century American Literature, Literary Nonfiction, Writing & Authorship.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Ernest Hemingway on Writing [Publisher's Review Slip laid-In]
• Éditeur: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Date de parution: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0684181193
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780684181196
• Reliure: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
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Synopsis

Book by Phillips

Présentation de l'éditeur

An assemblage of reflections on the nature of writing and the writer from one the greatest American writers of the twentieth century.

Throughout Hemingway’s career as a writer, he maintained that it was bad luck to talk about writing—that it takes off “whatever butterflies have on their wings and the arrangement of hawk’s feathers if you show it or talk about it.”

Despite this belief, by the end of his life he had done just what he intended not to do. In his novels and stories, in letters to editors, friends, fellow artists, and critics, in interviews and in commissioned articles on the subject, Hemingway wrote often about writing. And he wrote as well and as incisively about the subject as any writer who ever lived…

This book contains Hemingway’s reflections on the nature of the writer and on elements of the writer’s life, including specific and helpful advice to writers on the craft of writing, work habits, and discipline. The Hemingway personality comes through in general wisdom, wit, humor, and insight, and in his insistence on the integrity of the writer and of the profession itself.
—From the Preface by Larry W. Phillips