Ernest Hemingway war begeisterter Großwildjäger, und er liebte Afrika. 1953, auf der Höhe seines Ruhms und soeben mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnet, fuhr er mit seiner Frau Mary für ein halbes Jahr nach Kenia. Die dortige Regierung hatte ihn zum "Wildhüter" ehrenhalber" bestallt, und die Zeitschrift 'Look' erwartete eine Serie von Reportagen von ihm. Diese in zupackender Ich-Form gehaltenen, fast wie ein Roman zu lesenden Berichte wurden geliefert, aber aus unbekannten Gründen nie gedruckt. Nun hat sein Sohn Patrick sie anläßlich von Hemingways 100. Geburtstag, aus dem Nachlaß zusammengestellt.
Hemingway zeigt sich darin in seiner Lieblingsrolle als unverwüstlicher Tausendsassa, der zwischen der Jagd auf Löwen und Elefanten, der Leitung der vielköpfigen Reisegruppe, Gimlettrinken im luftigen Wohnzelt seines Buschcamps und unermüdlicher Lektüre noch Zeit findet, sich als Amateurarzt und Friedensrichter zu betätigen oder eine Schar aus dem Gefängnis entflohener Mau-Mau-Krieger zu jagen. Nebenbei hält er sich, von Mary argwöhnisch, aber letztlich großmütig geduldet, eine eingeborene Geliebte und verbrüdert sich mit stolzen, streitsüchtigen Massai.
Andererseits enthüllt sich hier auch der sensible, empfindsame Hemingway, der sich zärtlich um seine Frau bemüht, der sich durch die Schönheit von Fauna und Flora rühren läßt, der noch den geringsten seiner Diener mit Respekt behandelt.
Aber im Vordergrund steht Afrika - jenes ferne, mythische Land, "wo Dinge, die im Morgenlicht wahr sind, zu Mittag schon gelogen scheinen.
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Ernest Hemingway, 1899 als Sohn eines Arztes in Illinois (USA) geboren, ging 1921 als Journalist nach Europa und in den Nahen Osten. 1954 erhielt er für sein schriftstellerisches Werk den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Danach verbrachte er fünf Jahre in Paris. 1961 schied er nach schwerer Krankheit freiwillig aus dem Leben.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. True at First Light This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. . Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7719-9780434007813
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 6545-9780434007813
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Zustand: Very Good. 1st edition. Imitation cloth VG/VG. 320pp, head of the spine bumped, dustjacket rubbed at the head of the spine & with a crease along the length. A blend of memoir & fiction, the book tells of Hemingway's 195354 safari in Kenya with his fourth wife Mary. It remained unfinished at the time of Hemingway's death in 1961 & was edited to half its original length by his son, Patrick. 600 grams. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61726
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Leichte Rillen / Abschürfungen / Risse / Knicke; Gebrochener Buchrücken; Farbtonänderung. Ernest Hemingway's final posthumous work bears the rather awkward designation "a fictional memoir" and arrives under a cloud of controversial editing and patching--but all of that ends up being beside the point. Though this account of a 1953 safari in Kenya lacks the resolution and clarity of the best Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms) it is "real" Hemingway nonetheless. Let scholars work out where memoir leaves off and fiction begins: for the common reader, the prose alone casts an irresistible spell. In True at First Light the glory days of the "great white hunters" are over and the Mau Mau rebellion is violently dislodging European farmers from Kenya's arable lands. But to the African gun bearers, drivers, and game scouts who run his safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, Hemingway remains a lordly figure--almost a god. Two parallel quests propel the narrative: Mary, Hemingway's fourth and last wife, doggedly stalks an enormous black-maned lion that she is determined to kill by Christmas, while Hemingway becomes increasingly obsessed with Debba, a beautiful young African woman. What makes the novel especially strange and compelling is that Mary knows all about Debba and accepts her as a "supplementary wife," even as she loses no opportunity to rake her husband over the coals for his drinking, lack of discipline in camp, and condescending protectiveness. As usual with Hemingway, atmosphere and attitude are far more important than plot. Mary at one point berates her husband as a "conscience-ridden murderer," but this is precisely the moral stance that gives the hunting scenes their tension and beauty. "I was happy that before he died he had lain on the high yellow rounded mound with his tail down," Hemingway writes of "Mary's lion," "and his great paws comfortable before him and looked off across his country to the blue forest and the high white snows of the big Mountain." Passages like these--and there are many of them--redeem the book's rambling structure and occasional lapses into self-indulgent posturing. Joan Didion dismissed True at First Light in The New Yorker as "words set down but not yet written," but this fails to acknowledge the power of these words. The value of True at First Light lies in its candor, its nakedness: it provides a rare opportunity to watch a master working his way toward art. --David Laskin. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 3a24a58f-2622-40cd-8b7e-9ef7892c7111
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First U.K. Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Copy is not price-clipped. Physical description: 319p. ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes Swahili glossary. Summary: The fictionlised account of Ernest Hemingway's time living and hunting in Kenya. Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, but only recently edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers. Subject: Big game hunting - Kenya - Fiction. Autobiographical fiction. Kenya - Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Other names: Hemingway, Patrick. Genre: Autobiographical fiction. 3 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 229082
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