The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, alegendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Meanwhile,tensions are heightening among the various tribes and news arrivesof a potential attack. Hemingway must take on his new role ofleader and, of equal importance, assist his wife Mary to pursue thegreat lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionatelydetailing the African landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and theheartfelt relationships with his African neighbours, Hemingway, amaster of dramatic fiction, weaves a tale that is rich in laughter,beauty and insight.
【作者简介】
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the sonof a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as anambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home toAmerica in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as areporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning fromjournalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris wherehe renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriatessuch as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingwaytravelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationallyrecognized literary master of his craft. He received the NobelPrize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The OldMan and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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