Summer Months Among The Alps
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Clancy Carlile: The Paris Pilgrims, Carroll & Graf ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0786707534
PAPERBACK Good 0786707534 Editorial Reviews\n\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nSet among the legendary literati and libertines of 1920s Paris, the late Carlile's (Children of the Dust) quasifictional account of Ernest Hemingway's adventures as a Left Bank expatriate is a titillating, if far-fetched, cornucopia of big names, gossip and sexual intrigue. Published to mark Hemingway's centenary birthday, the narrative runs amok with the reputations of such well-known figures as James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes and Hilda Doolittle. Cameo appearances often seem contrived (Edna St. Vincent Millay caught in a sapphic kiss at Natalie Barney's salon), as do repeated walk-ons by the likes of Picasso, Braque, Colette and Cocteau. Opening with a name-dropping Hemingway meeting Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company, her Paris bookstore, the book closes with Beach name-dropping as she tearfully sends the Hemingways back to the States. Among other people who turn up in this maze of artistic celebrities is a sniveling, frail Jim Joyce, who's given to scatological and submissive fantasies, and is, of course, sloshed, and ambisexual publisher/writer Robert McAlmon, who is married to the wealthy poet Bryher, who is shacked up with her lover, the poet H.D., in the Alps. Hemingway and his wife, Hadley, spend most of their time in Paris hungover after drinking debauches, scrounging for cash and angling for patrons and publishers. The Hemingway portrayed here is a pompous pugilist who generally loses his matches, a man unduly fixated on seducing, and having his wife seduced by, lesbians, while at the same time his violent disgust for male homosexuality thinly disguises his own latent tendencies. Hem's selfish whining and flailing quickly turns tiresome, especially when Hadley becomes pregnant and he obsesses over a possible abortion. Annoying character portrayals aside, this episodic yarn is undeniably entertaining, with such episodes as the Venetian police busting Cole Porter's spicy soiree, Hemingway overcome with lust for Gertrude Stein, and a covey of literary wives steamed at their unflattering portraits in husbands' fiction. Less a coherent novel than a hodgepodge of irreverent, decadent tall tales, it is a good summer read for those who enjoy voyeuristic gossip about the talented and famous.\nCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.\n\nFrom Booklist\nThe year 1999 is the centenary of Ernest Hemingway's birth, and we will no doubt be deluged with book upon book about his life and times. Let's hope that the others will be better than Carlile's lumpish, sophomoric novel about the 20 eventful months in 1922 and 1923 that Ernest and Hadley Hemingway spent in Paris. James Joyce, Robert McAlmon, Lincoln Steffens, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, and Sylvia Beach, among others, appear and reappear as they drink, party, couple, and declaim their way through the novel, leaving Hemingway with precious little time to finish up the writings that would appear in Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time. Unfortunately, in Carlile's leaden prose, which sacrifices all nuances of character, these inherently interesting people remain one-dimensional, lost in a thicket of awkward sentence structure and cursed with laughable dialogue. The character most sympathetically presented is Hadley, who is forced, by her nature, into adoring a man who wants adulation yet continually rejects her. However, it's difficult to do anything but laugh at poor Hadley when she could feel the hairy pressure of his heaving chest pressing against the sensitiveness of her nipples. One result of this unfortunate novel is that Carlile has made all the characters so distasteful that it's impossible to think of reading any of their writings again. Carlile is best known for his Children of the Dust (1995), which became a CBS miniseries starring Sidney Poitier and was made into a movie starring Clint Eastwood. This novel, plus the fact that its publisher is putting major advertising dollars b
Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff: Summer Months Among the Alps; With the Ascent of Monte Rosa, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 12/22/2009 ISBN: 1150487224
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Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff: Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa, Nabu Press 01/11/2010 ISBN: 1142727513
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Thomas Woodbine Hinchliff: Summer Months Among the Alps: With the Ascent of Monte Rosa, Nabu Press 02/16/2010 ISBN: 1144551692
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