The Only Thing that Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence. Edited By Matthew J. Bruccoli.

Hemingway, Ernest.

ISBN 10: 0684815621 / ISBN 13: 9780684815626

Verlag: Scribners, New York, 1996

Beschreibung

A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. This collection of letters between Ernest Hemingway and long-time editor at Scribner's documents their friendship and professional relationship from the Paris year in the 1920s through the Depression, the Spanish Civil War and World War II. These letters not only document the unguarded exchange of two literary giants but also shed light on the inner workings of a writer, the publishing world and the making of literary history.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 23097

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Only Thing that Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence. Edited By Matthew J. Bruccoli.
• Verlag: Scribners, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0684815621
• ISBN-13: 9780684815626
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First Printing of the First Edition.
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Hemingway

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Inhaltsangabe

In 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Maxwell Perkins about a young American expatriate in Paris, an unknown writer with a "brilliant future." When Perkins wrote to Ernest Hemingway several months later, he commenced a correspondence spanning more than two decades and charting the career of the most influential American author of this century.
The letters collected here are the record of a remarkable professional alliance - an enduring friendship between editor and author - and of Hemingway's development as a writer. Determined to be a great novelist, Hemingway reported frequently on the pitfalls and triumphs of the writing process. While his fiction is characterized by precision and control, his letters reveal Hemingway at his most ebullient. Whether self-satisfied, bitter, or intoxicated, he wrote impassioned letters about everything that was on his mind, from literature and money to bull-fighting, fishing, and friendship.
From Paris in the Twenties through the Depression, the Spanish Civil War, and World War II, the correspondence between these men provides inside commentary on an era marked by influential developments in both literature and politics. And finally, for anyone interested in books, editing, and authorship, Perkins and Hemingway's exchange on the subjects of advances, advertising, critics, jacket illustrations, and movie deals show how much has changed in book publishing and how much has stayed the same.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Matthew J. Bruccoli is the Jefferies Professor of English at the University of South Carolina.