In the best of these streaming ‘other lives’. Hemingway’s Boat includes some of the most moving, beautiful pieces of biography I have ever read. He states his case persuasively, which is why this book is so good.” -Allan Massie, The Wall Street Journal “Heartbreaking. For Hendrickson, discovering just how unhappy and unsettled Hemingway was for so long makes him more of a hero. It is about the joy he spread and the infection he carried. Hemingway’s Boat is about Hemingway, about what was good in him and what was bad, about what brought a man who took pleasure in so much to the point where he could take his own life.
He gives the ravaged old man something more honest: a fair summing-up of a life like no other.” -Howell Raines, The Washington Post “A rich book and a wandering one.
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It’s a lucky genius who gets credit for the first and a free pass on the second. A writer’s life can contain two conflicting existences, one of purely original genius and one of irreversible destructiveness. With this sterling summation of the entire Hemingway canon, Hendrickson shows what has eluded some very able scholars. His commanding personality comes to life again in these pages, his great charm and warmth as well as his egotism and aggression.” -James Salter, The New York Review of Books “Large-minded rigorously fair. It does not rival the biographies but rather stands brilliantly beside them-the sea, Key West, Cuba, all the places, the life he had and gloried in.
Hemingway’s Boat is a book written with the virtuosity of a novelist, hagiographic in the right way, sympathetic, assiduous, and imaginative. It is like traveling with an irrepressible talker who may go off on tangents but never loses the power to amaze.
He has researched exhaustively, been to the places Hemingway frequented, and talked to whoever was part of or had a connection to the Hemingway days. He often appears in the first person, addressing the reader and exhorting him or her to speculate, imagine, or feel. Paul Hendrickson is a deeply informed and inspired guide. The stories are rich with contradiction and humanity, and so raw and immediate you can smell the salt air.” - Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2011: The Top 10 “Rich and enthralling.
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a biography that is at once admiring and devastating, and full of material that I wouldn’t have thought even existed and of people who knew Hemingway whom I’d never heard of-an eye opener of a book, full of unexpected riches, fascinating digressions, and leaving one at the end wishing the book were longer, and thinking long and hard about the price of fame and success in America, and the dangers of seemingly getting everything you wanted out of life-it just may be the best book I’ve read this year, and certainly the best book I’ve read about an American writer in a long, long time.” -Michael Korda, Newsweek Favorite Books 2011 “A lyrical and expansive search for the essence of a famous writer-heart, soul, and hull.” -Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune Top Picks of 2011 “The author, an accomplished storyteller, interprets myriad tiny details of Ernest Hemingway’s life, and through them says something new about a writer everyone thinks they know.” - The Economist Books of the Year 2011 “Hendrickson’s engrossing book offers a fresh slant on the rise and fall of a father figure of American literature.” -S an Francisco Chronicle Best Books of 2011 “There’s never been a biography quite like this one.
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