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Hemingway at Eighteen
Hemingway at Eighteen: The Pivotal Year That Launched an American Legend | Steve Paul
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In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an 18-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry in the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind, and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at one of the great newspapers of its day, the Kansas City Star. In six and a half months, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education, which opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama. The Kansas City experience led Hemingway into the Red Cross ambulance service in Italy, where, two weeks before his 19th birthday, he was dangerously wounded at the front. Award-winning writer Steve Paul takes a measure of these experiences that transformed Hemingway from a "modest, rather shy and diffident boy" to a young man who was increasingly occupied by recording the truth as he saw it of crime, graft, exotic temptations, violence, and war. Hemingway at Eighteen sheds new light on this young man bound for greatness and a writer at the very beginning of his journey.
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Rachbb3
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Mehso-so

This book chronicles the year that Hemingway was 18 years old, from his time at the Kansas City Star where he received his first writing job as a reporter to his service in the American Red Cross in Italy during World War 1.

There were too many could bes, possibly, might have beens for me in this book and the ending didn't have a proper conclusion, it just cut off and ended which was strange.

#LitsyAtoZ

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Rachbb3
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Barnes and Noble #bookhaul

Leftcoastzen Nice! 6y
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introvertedbooks
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My coworker went to #pla last week and knows I love #hemingway so she got this for me! She's so awesome! #freebooks #biographies

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ValerieAndBooks
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Back from Boston for older son‘s senior recital 🎹 🎶 👍! Before we met up with him, we visited the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Very interesting. The Hemingway collection is mostly housed there, but didn‘t see it. Among other things, I picked up this (signed) book on sale and bookmark “I rewrote the last chapter over 40 times but I hope it does not read that way.” ( about A Farewell to Arms)

Lcsmcat How‘d the recital go? 7y
ValerieAndBooks @Lcsmcat it went well— he was happy with how it turned out. Thanks for asking 😊! 7y
Leftcoastzen That bookmark is so cool.You don‘t see that early photo too often , nice cover. 7y
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ValerieAndBooks @Leftcoastzen you‘re right; I‘ve never seen that picture before myself. The book was just released this year — looks interesting!! 7y
LeahBergen That bookmark is fabulous! 7y
Lcsmcat @ValerieAndBooks I‘m glad to hear it. 😀 7y
Cathythoughts Sounds like an interesting trip 🎼📕 7y
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