Ernest's Way, An International Journey Through Hemingway's Life by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes

Follow the path of one of America's finest novelists and one of history's greatest adventurers from Paris to Havana, from Madrid to Idaho, with his great-granddaughter. Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel Prize-winning author, was known as much for his prose as for his travels to exotic locales, his gusto and charm created excitement wherever he went. In Ernest's Way, we follow Cristen around the globe to the places he lived, wrote, fought, drank, fished, ran with the bulls and held court with T.s. Elliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein and many other influential writers, artists and intellectuals of the 20th century. In fresh and lively prose, Cristen brings to life atmosphere of La Closerie des Lilas, the Parisian cafe where Hemingway penned. The Sun Also Rises. Or to dine on suckling pig at the oldest restaurant in the world, Sobrino de Botin in Madrid, as Hemingway did while writing and drinking three bottles of rioja alta in one sitting. We can follow his path through Northern Italy, where he served as an ambulance driver and was seriously wounded in the First World War or trek through the locations described in A Farewell to Arms. Ernest's Way is a map to Hemingway's creative and psychic history they made him who he was and shaped his life and his work. Ernest's Way is a guide and literary exploration in to the cities Hemingway visited and.