Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways /
Hemingway, Valerie, 1940-
Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways / Valerie Hemingway. - 1st edition - xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index.
Endings and beginnings -- Dublin's fair city : a family album -- New horizons : London and the continent -- Spain -- Birthdays, bull fever, and a new title, La secretaria -- Provence and Paris : life as a moveable feast -- Partings and promises -- Cuba, 1960 -- A week of suppers -- Friends, fishing, and Fidel -- Mail and my short foray into society -- Forebodings -- Farewell to the Finca -- Spain again -- Broadway beckons, and a funeral -- Havana revisited -- Picking up the pieces, Ketchum, Fall 1961 : "best of all he loved the fall" -- New York, new life, 1962 -- For better, for worse, in sickness and in health -- The donkey, the mule, and the pony -- Decline and fall -- A time to speak.
"A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba. In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man's secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century." "Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer's estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family." "In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Moveable Feast, even as Castro's revolution closed in. After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousands of manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest's funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway's son Gregory - and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood." "From lunches with Orson Welles to midnight serenades by mysterious troubadours, from a rooftop encounter with Castro to numbing hospital vigils, Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways."--Jacket.
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Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Homes and haunts--Spain.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Family.
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Hemingway, Valerie, 1940-
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Hemingway, Valerie, 1940-
Hemingway, Ernest.
1900-1999
Authors, American--Family relationships.--20th century
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Americans--History--Spain--20th century.
Americans.
Authors, American.
Authors, American--Family relationships.
Families.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Familie
Spain--Intellectual life--20th century.
Spain.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
PS3515.E37 / Z54 2004
813/.52
813.52 H488zh
Running with the bulls : my years with the Hemingways / Valerie Hemingway. - 1st edition - xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-302) and index.
Endings and beginnings -- Dublin's fair city : a family album -- New horizons : London and the continent -- Spain -- Birthdays, bull fever, and a new title, La secretaria -- Provence and Paris : life as a moveable feast -- Partings and promises -- Cuba, 1960 -- A week of suppers -- Friends, fishing, and Fidel -- Mail and my short foray into society -- Forebodings -- Farewell to the Finca -- Spain again -- Broadway beckons, and a funeral -- Havana revisited -- Picking up the pieces, Ketchum, Fall 1961 : "best of all he loved the fall" -- New York, new life, 1962 -- For better, for worse, in sickness and in health -- The donkey, the mule, and the pony -- Decline and fall -- A time to speak.
"A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face-to-face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba. In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man's secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century." "Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer's estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family." "In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Moveable Feast, even as Castro's revolution closed in. After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousands of manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest's funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway's son Gregory - and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood." "From lunches with Orson Welles to midnight serenades by mysterious troubadours, from a rooftop encounter with Castro to numbing hospital vigils, Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways."--Jacket.
0345467337 9780345467331 0345467345 9780345467348
2004047071
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Homes and haunts--Spain.
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 --Family.
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Hemingway, Valerie, 1940-
Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961.
Hemingway, Mary Welsh, 1908-1986.
Hemingway, Valerie, 1940-
Hemingway, Ernest.
1900-1999
Authors, American--Family relationships.--20th century
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
Americans--History--Spain--20th century.
Americans.
Authors, American.
Authors, American--Family relationships.
Families.
Homes.
Intellectual life.
Familie
Spain--Intellectual life--20th century.
Spain.
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
PS3515.E37 / Z54 2004
813/.52
813.52 H488zh