Hemingway in Love, A. E. Hotchner
Hemingway in Love, A. E. Hotchner
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Hemingway in Love
His Own Story

Author: A. E. Hotchner

Narrator: Alex Hyde-White, Gabrielle de Cuir, Susan Hanfield, Steve Marvel, Joan Baker

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2015


Synopsis

This program includes archival recordings of Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway's deeply reflective account of his destructive Paris affair and how it affected the legendary life he rebuilt after, as told to his best friend, the writer A.E. Hotchner.

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke: a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over nearly a decade.

In characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway divulged to Hotchner the details of the affair that destroyed his first marriage: the truth of his romantic life in Paris and how he lost Hadley,the real part of each literary woman he'd later create and the great love he spent the rest of his life seeking. And he told of the mischief that made him a legend: of impotence cured in a house of God; of a plane crash in the African bush, from which he stumbled with a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin in hand; of F. Scott Fitzgerald dispensing romantic advice; of midnight champagne with Josephine Baker; of adventure, human error, and life after lost love. This is Hemingway as few have known him: humble, thoughtful, and full of regret.

To protect the feelings of Ernest's wife, Mary - also a close friend - Hotch kept the conversations to himself for decades. Now he tells the story as Hemingway told it to him. Hemingway in Love puts you in the room with the master as he remembers the definitive years that set the course for the rest of his life and dogged him until the end of his days.

About A. E. Hotchner

A.E. HOTCHNER (1917-2020) was a life-long writer. In his seven decade career, he produced novels, plays, teleplays, biographies and memoirs. His numerous books include his 1966 internationally bestselling biography of his close friend Ernest Hemingway, Papa Hemingway. His books The Man Who Lived at the Ritz and Looking for Miracles were adapted into TV films, and his memoir, King of the Hill, was adapted into a film in 1993 by Steven Soderbergh. In addition to his writing career, Hotchner is co-founder, along with Paul Newman, of Newman's Own foods and the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp. He lived in Connecticut with his wife, Virginia.

About Gabrielle de Cuir

Gabrielle de Cuir is a Grammy-nominated and Audie Award-winning producer whose narration credits include the voice of Valentine in Orson Scott Card’s Ender novels, Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Tombs of Atuan, and Natalie Angier’s Woman, for which she was awarded AudioFile magazine’s Golden Earphones Award.  She lives in Los Angeles where she also directs theatre and presently has several projects in various stages of development for film.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Lawyer on December 19, 2015

Hemingway in Love: His Own Story, A Shot of Tequila to be Taken with Ample Salt Well, well, well. This is a beautiful little literary memoir written by A.E. Hotchner. Mr. Hotchner's a nice fellow. He helped Paul Newman start the Newman's Own food brand, the proceeds of which are donated to charity. H......more

Goodreads review by Esil on October 08, 2015

3 1/2 stars. Sometimes you read a book and at some level you know there's a lot wrong with it, but somehow it's still captivating. That's how I experienced reading Hemingway in Love. A.E. Hotchner, who was a friend of Hemingway's, writes about a few conversations he had with EH over the last few yea......more

Goodreads review by Dave on February 20, 2020

R.I.P .A. E. Hotchner, (1917-2020), biographer and friend of Ernest Hemingway, who helped shape this positive spin on Hem's relationship with his first wife Hadley, whom we all pretty much agree was wronged by Hem. Here Hotch midwives Hem's apology and "love letter" to Hadley. This older interview b......more

Goodreads review by Linda on January 26, 2019

I'm not sure exactly why I continue to read about Ernest Hemingway. He truly was a despicable man. Always searching, never resting. Restlessly jumping from one woman to another. Always, always having another in wait before he left the current one. This is written by his friend of 13 years, who it see......more

Goodreads review by Judy on October 22, 2015

A special thank you to St. Martin's Press and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. A. E. Hotchner (Aaron Edward) American editor, novelist, playwright, biographer, and friend (Hotch), delivers an intimate inside look, “behind the scenes” of his close friend’s relationship, life, an......more


Awards

  • Barnes and Noble Best New Books of the Year