Well Al, you've done it again. Not only have you blown away the competition, but maybe even Hemingway himself, with your deeply-penetrating comprehension of TSAR. The historical background information along with reasoned explanations of the text allow the reader to teleport himself away from the page and into Hemingway's own orb. Profound my man, profound.

This book is as good as gold.! DeFazio's treatment of TSAR is one of the best I've ever seen.

I have to disagree with the other reviewer, this book lacks nothing!

You are good to go with this one Good Buddy, Or my name is John Albert Barneske III.

You can't swing a dead cat in a college bookstore without hitting another book about Hemingway. However, A. DeFazio has graced us with a unique and interesting review about Hemingway and his timeless novel, The Sun Also Rises (TSAR). DeFazio topples the usual misconceptions regarding Hemingway and delves into the rich information surrounding Hemingway's inscribing of TSAR. Also, DeFazio provides a crisp analysis of the expatriate movement and events surrounding the timeline of TSAR, a must for fully understanding Hemingway's true intent of the novel. After reading DeFazio's opus, you feel an intimate closeness to Hemingway and his characters. DeFazio brings the once-secluded world of Hemingway, previously only encountered by the most devoted of Hemingway scholars, to our hands. However, DeFazio doesn't just provide analysis of the work, he includes a subtle display of Hemingway's true genius behind TSAR, conjuring much respect for Hemingway and his first major work. DeFazio also provides an astounding amount of other Hemingway and TSAR sources (I'm sure due to his status as the indexer for the Hemingway Review). Now, DeFazio's adept writing doesn't just supply you with information about TSAR and Hemingway, it brings you one step closer to understanding the novel in its true greatness. Not to imply that DeFazio has written only praise of the book, in fact there is impressive and concise criticism of TSAR. Yet, DeFazio's book seems to come up lacking. It seems that regardless of level of criticism and analysis, nothing can convey the true eminence behind TSAR. Nothing can properly compliment the harsh prose that made TSAR a classic, but DeFazio tries damn hard, and does a jim-dandy job. DeFazio's Literary Masterpieces: The Sun Also Rises (LMTSAR) is an invaluable companion to the timeless masterpiece. But the greatest part of the book must be the "extras" that are so common yet so poorly tailored in most companion books. DeFazio includes pictures of cafes, bullfights and many other settings. All of the locales of the book, and many other elements Hemingway touched on are detailed and advanced in LMTSAR to a point where you 're walking down the streets of the working quarter with Jake Barnes and Rob Cohn, listening to the sounds of ragged jazz from a street side café and taking sips from a bottle of good bottle of Port. Truly, the level of detail DeFazio has provided us in LMTSAR will amaze everyone, from that indifferent teenager in the back of the classroom who smells like bud, to Michael Reynolds himself. If you're going to have one companion book to the great work of Hemingway, make it DeFazio's LMTSAR...

Having just finished "Remembering Ernest Hemingway," I am eager to sing its praises! I have taught Hemingway for 30 years, have read all the bios of him--Baker, Reynolds, Hotchner, etc., and enjoyed them all--but this book still manages to surprise and delight the reader with previously unheard anecdotes, unseen photos, and candid, first-person recollections of Hemingway the friend, boxer, fisherman, hunter, and writer. The book is a compilation of interviews with close personal friends and relatives of EH. For instance, his sons, Gregory and Patrick tell what life was like with EH for a father; two men remember their experiences boxing regularly with EH; Charles Thompson, who went on African safari with EH (and was featured in Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa")tells what it was like to hunt big game with Hemingway; Valerie Hemingway remembers being with EH during wild times in Spain, etc.

Reading each interview is as authentic and fascinating as watching an old home movie. Each person interviewed offers genuine incidents in which Hemingway's candid words and actions reveal the man in his many facets. All in all, this is a thoroughly enjoyable book, a must read for all Hemingway fans. And, as frosting on the cake, the book even has rare photos, some of which I have never before seen: photos of Hemingway and Gary Cooper; photos of Hem's boat, "The Pilar,"; photos of Hemingway with the Italian woman on whom he based his novel "Across the River and Into the Trees," etc. "Remembering Ernest Hemingway" is a wonderful glimpse of the elusive writer. I most highly recommend it.

Most of the interviews in this book were with the people Hemingway lived and shared with. These interviews are not about the myth but more the person he was.

After decades of reveling in the myth of Hemingway I now know the man they call Papa Hemingway. The book holds many intimate surprises as told first hand by those who were his friends and his sons. The book is easy and friendly like sipping daiquiries on the verando in the keys and talking among friends. But it is also voyeuristic in feeling as you listen to the interviews and hear what everyday people who knew him had to say. It is intimate in content and refreshing to the senses. I knew the myth and I now know the man. I still like him. This is a good read.

Ésta es una novela corta, cuya narración se mete en los detalles de las situaciones, pero no aburre al lector, por el contrario lo hace interesarse en la historia.

La historia es sobre un viejo pescador que está en un periodo de mala suerte y sale a pescar. Durante el tiempo que dura la pesca muestra las bellezas y peligros del mar, reflexiona sobre el hombre y su parecido y diferencias con criaturas marinas, enseña que cada persona es producto de su pasado y así sucesivamente.

Es una novela sin sobresaltos, para que chicos y grandes la disfruten.

un cuento hermoso, escrito con la parquedad de palabras que caracteriza a Hemingway, con sus oraciones cortas y concisas, con su estilo de periodista puesto al servicio de la novelistica. este cuento trata sobre la busqueda, esa interna busqueda del ser humano, esa agonia por poseer, conquistar, domar, por no ser vencido por el inexorable paso de los anos y la muerte. esto es lo que impulsa a santiago a la pesca todos los dias. no se porque, pero esta historia me recuerda mucho a moby dick, aunque aqui la busqueda sea diferente muy recomendado. LUIS MENDEZ

Thoroughly traces Hemingway's whole life from birth to shotgun finale. Splendidly done by Baker. I am in agreement with the previous reviewer; this bio is up there with Manchester's bio of Winston Churchill.

Carlos Baker's biography of Hemingway reveals the life of Hemingway to be far more interesting and compelling than anything Hemingway wrote. Baker shows himself to have literary talent equal to that of his subject, and has written a thorough and thoroughly readable biography of Hemingway. Anyone who has enjoyed William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill will be equally entertained and informed

American expatriates and a spoilt English Upper Class woman in Europe in the 1920s, the gay life in Paris, fishing and bullfighting, the Fiesta in Pamplona - the ingredients Hemingway so brilliantly used to construct one of the 20th century`s most famous and read novel. Here Hemingway`s structure, his narrative style with the simple use of language really came on display for the first time. A book that totally gripped me and fascinated me. Excellent, brilliant, simply Ernest Hemingway!

One of the best books I've ever read. The story flows like a wide river, the atmospheric changes between the wild and crazy days in Paris and the passionate and dangerous time in Pamplona is excellent. For those who have never read the book - just think about this sentence: "It's terribly easy to be hardboild about everything in the daytime, but at night it's something completely different."

This book is a gem and should be on the reading list of any fan of Fitzgerald or Hemingway. Much of the contents are anecdotal recollections of Hemingway regarding Fitzgerald who he regarded as immensely talented but weak and dominated (by Zelda and the bottle). A variety of letters between the two help to bring to life the closeness that was in evidence in the early friendship before Fitzgerald's decline and Hemingway's enormous success (followed by his growing intolerance of the waning and less successful like FSF). This book also does not attempt to hide the sometimes incomprehensible mean -spiritedness of Hemingway when despite all his success (largely aided by the early support of others he later cast aside) still felt enough threatened to throw his drowning friends an anchor.

This has new stuff that wasn't in Brucolli's previous book on the two authors SCOTT AND ERNEST. I read that one, and when starting FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY, thought I'd read the same book, but with a few added facts. Well, there are tons of new facts in F & H that are EXTREMELY interesting to the Fitzgerald and Hemingway fan. I recommend this book highly. I've read much of it more than once.

well done. i don't usually care to read books by academics, but this is the exception to the rule. you get the full picture here about ernie, warts and all. you may not like some of the things you'll find out about the great novelist...but then, that's life. i say you'll still want to read ernie's books--because he was that good. ernie lives on!

Insightful analysis of Hemingway's work for anyone who wants to get past the literal meanings to reach the symbolic. Reading Baker's book makes reading Hemingway an even more rewarding experience.

"Carl Eby's _Hemingway's Fetishism_ ... is a bold book, a daring book--a persuasive and even a moving book.... Eby attempts nothing less than a complete reinterpretation of Hemingway's life and work in the context of his basic hypothesis....

The heart of Eby's project resides in his effort to give a synthetic account of Hemingway's fascination with hair. Eby is not, of course, the first to notice this preoccupation. But he is the first to try to understand its full psychological complexity, as well as to trace the substitutive logic by which Hemingway moves from meditations on hair to, say, fantasies about cats, the actual slaughter of rabbits, dreams about lions, a desire for pierced ears, and a wish for the dark pigmentation of racially marked skin. For Eby, each of these represents a displaced version of the primal fetish, hair. His book sets out to explore this proposition by showing, first, _that_ Hemingway was a fetishist and _how_ he came to be one; and second, why it was that hair in particular became his fetish of choice....

Eby makes [his] theoretical argument cumulatively over several chapters. He draws not only on Freud's classic work, but on more recent theories by Joyce McDougall, Phyllis Greenacre, George Zavitzianos, D. W. Winnicott, and especially, Robert Stoller. In doing so, he makes provocative claims about the relations between fetishism, melancholia, and transvestism; about the tendency of male perversions to bolster conventional masculinity, despite appearing to undermine it; about the inverse relation between artistic creativity and fetishistic fixation; and about the fetish object's link to what Winnicott calls the 'transitional object.'

But more impressive than this theoretical sophistication is Eby's firm commitment to the expressive character of literature--to the proposition that literature offers psychological insights that are multifaceted and theoretically irreducible. His readings seek to grant Hemingway's works their idiosyncratic forms of knowledge. He does not, accordingly, merely use fetishism as a lens through which to read Hemingway's texts, but interprets Hemingway's fiction in a way that illuminates and renders more complex our understanding of the psychology of fetishism."

--Greg Forter, _The Hemingway Review_

"Eby's knowledge of psychoanalytic and gender theory is extraordinary; in addition he has read all of Hemingway's published and unpublished writings.... Indeed, he seems to have a concordance-like memory of Hemingway's every word....

The book offers for the first time a theoretically sophisticated and comprehensive study of Hemingway's gender instability, erotic attachment to hair, narcissism, latent homosexuality, castration anxiety, and split toward women.... Hemingway's Fetishism is an extraordinary book ... written with verve, wit, and good humor. [Eby] is always self-critical of his methodology and suggests other explanations for the ones he provides, thus convincing us that he can see a variety of critical perspectives. Eby demythologizes Hemingway without dehumanizing him or dismissing him, and despite his heavy reliance upon psychoanalytic theory, he avoids the language of psychobabble. He also avoids pathography, arguing instead that the childhood events that damaged Hemingway's psyche may have contributed to his ability to identify with others. It is doubtful that any study published in the next few years on Hemingway will be as insightful and controversial as this one.

--Jeffrey Berman, Psychoanalytic Books

I had never heard of Morley Callghan before reading this book. Which is unfortunate because the book is hard to put down. It is well-written, informative, amusing, thought provoking and gives insight into several notable literary figures from a first hand perspective.

A perfect companion to Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast"...written about the same people and time, but with a different point of view...

Originally published in 1962, At the Hemingways, by Ernest Hemingway's eldest sister, Marcelline, is a classic biography that's long been out of print. In celebration of this year's centennial of Hemingway's birth, the book has been republished with some attractive additions, giving Hemingway aficionados a fine opportunity to add an important volume to their bookshelves. Marcelline Sanford Hemingway recounts in immensely readable prose and in rich detail all the excitement of growing up in a large and unique family gifted in the arts and sciences. She recaptures both the cultural ferment of turn-of-the-century Chicago and the rustic tranquility of the Michigan woods, bringing the years of Hemingway's childhood and the various influences at play on his development alive as no one else could. What's more, this handsome new edition includes a foreword by Hemingway biographer Michael Reynolds, and, still more exciting, 50 years of previously unpublished letters between Hemingway and his sister, tracing their relationship from childhood up to Hemingway's suicide in 1961. A number of the Hemingway letters home from camping trips in Michigan, from the hospital where he convalesced from his wounding in WW I, and from Paris and Pamplona, are real treasures.