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Record Nr.

UNINA9910150323903321

Autore

Noble Dennis L.

Titolo

Hemingway's Cuba : finding the places and people that influenced the writer / / Dennis L. Noble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jefferson, North Carolina : , : McFarland & Company, Incorporated, Publishers, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4766-6643-1

1-4766-2638-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 pages)

Disciplina

813/.52

Soggetti

Authors, American - 20th century

Americans - Cuba

Cuba Intellectual life 20th century

Cuba In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cuba and the ambos mundos -- 2. Walking in Hemingway's old Havana -- 3. Finca Vigía -- 4. Las estrellas de Gigi -- 5. Tracking Hemingway eastward to Santiago de Cuba -- 6.Tracking Hemingway westward from Santiago de Cuba to Bahía Honda -- 7. Cojímar -- Appendix A: a short history of Ernest Hemingway -- Appendix B: the Hemingway women.

Sommario/riassunto

"This travel narrative follows a wandering journey across the island in search of Hemingway's Cuba and how it influenced some of his writings. The author seeks out Hemingway's haunts in Old Havana and his home in Finca Vigía and explores the north coast fishing village of Cojímar, his setting for The Old Man and the Sea"--