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Ernest Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway - True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir

Ernest Hemingway and Patrick Hemingway - True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir

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The last unpublished work by the great American author offers a fictional account of his last African safari.
 

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Light's beginning to fade

Date of Review:  Nov 1, 1999
Review: I'm a two or three-book a week guy, unless I'm struggling through something by Octavio Paz or someone else equally remote from my life. It took me three weeks to finish this Hemingway book and, sadly, it is not the best book that I've read this...
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  3.0

by: sweetpaulie
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Some glimpses of greatness
Cons
Self indulgent, little insight
 

Truly Un-Enlightening

Date of Review:  Jun 20, 2002
The Bottom Line: Unless you are part of Hemingway's select readership and know Africa well, this one will leave you frustrated, irritated and yawning.
Review: True At First Light. E Hemingway. Fiction. Scribner 1999. Hardback pp 311. $26.00. ISBN 0-684-84921-6.

When I showed some of my writing to a relative, he remarked: ?Well, it?s so-so, but I prefer stories that tell you something. Writers...
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by: heidifromoz
Recommended to buy: No

Pros
Great cover.
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Boring. A self-indulgent, rambling...
 

Hemingway Misses Big Game

Date of Review:  Sep 25, 1999
Review: Hemingway misses the big game, but scores a fine trophy or, Winner takes
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The book, True at First Light, was well written in its first incarnation as Green Hills of Africa, but it is still a good book. It reads well and then...
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  3.0

by: wordman
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Clean, lean prose
Cons
Muddled execution
 
 
 

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Authors Ernest Hemingway
Narrator Brian Dennehy
Fiction Genre Unknown
Fiction Subgenre Unknown

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  Didion, Joan, New York Review of Books: "TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT...can be read only as something not yet made, scenes in the process of being set down, words set down but not yet written."

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  Format: Audio - Compact Disc
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (February 05, 2007)
Measurements: 5.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1.25"(d), 0.6 lbs.
ISBN: 9780743564465
 

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