Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner

Papa Hemingway by A.E. Hotchner is a 304-page hardcover first 1955, and this copy was published in 1966 by Random House New York.  It was a Book of the Month Club selection.  The dust jacket has numerous chips and closed tears along the edges but is fully intact.  The book has light tanning to the pages but is in good condition. Book Summary It is rare in literary history that a great writer has a friend who can remain that and yet be an observer--a friend who can portray vividly, with warmth and objectivity, the man's life, his greatness, his death.  For the last fourteen years of Ernest Hemingway's life A.E. Hotchner was such a friend; together the two of them went deep-sea fishing off Cuba; traveled from New York to Paris to Spain, where they toured the bullfight circuit; hunted in Ketchum, Idaho; ran with the bulls in Pamplona--and once ever masqueraded as a matador and his manager in an actual bullfight. When he first met Hemingway, A.E. Hotchner was on a magazine assignment, and