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050 00 $aPS3515.E37$bT78 1999
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100 1 $aHemingway, Ernest,$d1899-1961.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78078534
245 10 $aTrue at first light /$cErnest Hemingway ; with an introduction by Patrick Hemingway.
260 $aNew York :$bScribner,$c1999.
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300 $a319 pages ;$c24 cm
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520 $aBoth revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth.
520 8 $aA blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession.
520 8 $aSpicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery - the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry.
520 8 $aAs the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the "incalculable casualties of marriage," and their attempts to love each other well are marred by cruelty, competition and infidelity. Ernest has become involved with Debba, an African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent.
852 00 $bglx$hPS3515.E37$iT78 1999