"Of the place where he had been a boy he had written well enough. As well as he could then." So thought a dying writer in an early version of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro."
The writer of course was Hemingway. The place was the Michigan of his boyhood summers, where he remembered himself as Nick Adams.
The famous "Nick Adams" stories show a memorable character growing from child to adolescent to soldier, veteran, writer, and parent -- a sequence closely paralleling the events of Hemingway's life.
In this arrangement Nick Adams emerges clearly as the first in a long line of Hemingway's fictional selves. Later versions, from Jake Barnes and Frederic Henry to Richard Cantwell and Thomas Hudson, were all to have behind them part of Nick's history and, correspondingly, part of Hemingway's.
Author : Sandra Brown
Victor Slezak
Published By : Simon & Schuster
6 hours
Categories : General Horror & Suspense
Download Price : $29.95 $17.95
Deadly consequences ensue when an eccentric millionaire, crippled in a tragic accident, hires a fallen football hero (and ex-con) to impregnate his wife. More...
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Author : Ken Wells
Dick Hill
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
15 hours 51 minutes
Categories : General
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Justin Pitre was born and raised on his grandfather’s 500-acre Louisiana bayou and has made a promise to keep the family property safe. But a Big-Tex oil bigwig has plans to cash in. More...
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Author : Bernard Malamud
Christopher Hurt
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
6 hours 30 minutes
Categories : General Sports
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The Natural , the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s first novel, tells the story of a superbly gifted “natural” at play in the fields of the old daylight baseball era, investing it with hardscrabble poetry that is at once grand and altogether believable. More...
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Author : Kevin Henkes
Blair Brown
Published By : Harper Collins US
2 hours 30 minutes
Categories : Romance General
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Eerie connections link Martha and Olive, who both kept the same secret without knowing it. More...
Written By : Pete McCarthy
Narrated By : Pete McCarthy
Hodder & Stoughton Audiobooks
Length : 2 hours
Type : Autobiography Biographical Travel
Price : $16.75
The audio of the million-selling book - Pete McCarthy's hilarious journey in search of his Irish roots.
McCarthy's tale of his hilarious trip around Ireland has gained thousands of fans all over the world.
Pete was born in Warrington to an Irish mother and an English father and spent happy summer holidays in Cork. Years later, reflecting on the many places he has visited as a travel broadcaster, Pete admits that he feels more at home in Ireland than anywhere. To find out whether this is due to rose-coloured spectacles or to a deeper tie with the country of his ancestors, Pete sets off on a trip around Ireland and discovers that it has changed in surprising ways.
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