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The heart of Hemingway

A new biography of ‘Papa’ has deeply impressed Sam Leith, although its thoroughness — like its subject — ‘teeters on nuts’

  • Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, And Lost, 1934-1961

    Paul Hendrickson

    Bodley Head, pp. 532

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