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ISBN
9780813946672
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines
Publication Name
Almost Hemingway : the Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Subject
Adventurers & Explorers, Journalism, Historical
Publication Year
2021
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Rex Bowman, Carlos Santos
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Width
6.2 in
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Would it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway?s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? Almost Hemingway relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hemingway?s in ways that compelled writers for publications as divergent as the Guardian and Field & Stream to compare them. Unlike Hemingway, however, Farson has been forgotten. This high-flying and literate biography recovers Farson?s life in its multifaceted details, from his time as an arms dealer to Czarist Russia during World War I, to his firsthand reporting on Hitler and Mussolini, to his assignment in India, where he broke the news of Gandhi?s arrest by the British, to his excursion to Kenya a few years before the Mau Mau Uprising. Farson also found the time to publish an autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, which made him an international publishing sensation in 1936, as well as Going Fishing, one of the most enduring of all outdoors books. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a fellow member of the Lost Generation whose art competed with a public image grander than reality, once confessed that while he had to rely on his imagination, Farson could simply draw from his own event-filled life. Almost Hemingway is the definitive window on that remarkable story.

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Publisher
University of Virginia Press
ISBN-10
0813946670
ISBN-13
9780813946672
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24050074670

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Almost Hemingway : the Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent
Publication Year
2021
Subject
Adventurers & Explorers, Journalism, Historical
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biography & Autobiography, Language Arts & Disciplines
Author
Rex Bowman, Carlos Santos
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN
2021-023500
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Bowman and Santos--both former journalists who know how to tell a story--say {Farson}'lived each day as if it were a door that needed kicking in.'... [He] had grabbed his existence as few men ever do--with both hands--and squeezed it for every drop.", Almost Hemingway is a revelation and a page turner -- the story of a 'mutinous existential renegade' who trekked the world by boat, car, train and horseback, won fame, faced dangers, wrote magnifient prose and lived by the creed that 'men who spent their time merely trying to get rich were pitiably dumb bastards.' Bowman and Santos capture Negley Farson's life in all its brilliance and daredeviltry. It's hard to put down a book that includes such lines as: 'After forcing Farson to make a drunken speech, the regiment carried him around the town square on their shoulders.', As Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos show in their fascinating and welcome biography, Almost Hemingway, Farson may not have equaled Hemingway in the quality and influence of his prose, but his body of work is significant, and he deserves to be better known and more widely read., "Negley Farson lived his life like a headlong attack, and Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos keep pace with him. Almost Hemingway is a beautifully written account of an avatar of a vanishing breed--the adventurer. It is a distinct pleasure to barrel through Farson's vivid life with the authors. "--Mary Dearborn, author of Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, [A] bustling debut biography... fans of the Lost Generation will be entertained by this rip-roaring account of a larger-than-life character mostly lost to history., Although Farson 'managed to hide the deepest parts of himself,' the authors draw on his memoirs, letters, and reportage to create a lively chronicle of his peripatetic adventures... A brisk tale of an eventful life., Negley Farson. The name alone conjures up the incredible life story. This twentieth century epic unfolds in the authors' capable hands, sweeping across the continents and spanning two world wars, bringing back the romance and excitement of the foreign correspondent. In lively prose, the authors show how he lived by his wits, struggled with alcohol, and needed little more than a manual typewriter and a telephone to do his job., Negley Farson lived his life like a headlong attack, and Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos keep pace with him. Almost Hemingway is a beautifully written account of an avatar of a vanishing breed--the adventurer. It is a distinct pleasure to barrel through Farson's vivid life with the authors., This now-obscure author deserves a place outside of Papa's shadow.... Never heard of him? You're not alone. But in Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent, authors Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos reveal the tale of this real-life daredevil, deadline-writer extraordinaire, and, in the words of one reviewer, "mutinous existential renegade."
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
070.92
Lc Classification Number
Pn4874.F38657b69
Table of Content
Introduction: Remembering Negley Farson 1. Europe, 1925 2. The Old General 3. Fish Mad 4. England and War 5. Russia 6. Crash Landing in Egypt 7. Life in the Wilds 8. The Exotic Life of a Foreign Correspondent 9. Whaling Adventure 10. Among the Spaniards 11. Russia Again 12. Meeting Ghandi 13. Covering Hitler and the World 14. Writing a Best Seller 15. South American Bender 16. Taking the Cure 17. His Life in a Novel 18. Mired in African Mud and Acrimony 19. A Bomber's Moon 20. Writing a Masterpiece 21. Back to Russia 22. Back to Africa 23. Road's End Acknowledgements Notes Index
Copyright Date
2022

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