Valerie Hemingway
Autor von Running With the Bulls : My Years With the Hemingways
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- Danby-Smith, Valerie
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- Ireland
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- Bozeman, Montana, USA
Spain
France
Cuba
Key West, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA - Berufe
- freelance writer
reporter
Ernest Hemingway's secretary
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- Hemingway, Gregory (husband)
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I found this a slog to get through. After a couple of chapters on her personal life before she met the Hemingways; the first third of the book is all about the bullfighting in Spain. On and on, bullfights, drinking, etc. The author has a bitter tone to her voice, as well she may after her long involvement with the family, especially her marriage to George who was mentally ill. In spite of her many protestations of affection, she can be quite snide. Give the woman her due though, she gave many years of her life in service to them.
I was interested in the author's life in New York city, and her involvement in the publishing world in the 1960s, but that is glossed over and the rest of the book is full of the dreary details of her twenty some-odd years of putting up with George Hemingway and his mental illness. I found enough of interest in the tale to finish the book, but I didn't enjoy one minute of it. What does that say? Is it the fault of the author, or of myself? I don't know, but other readers may feel differently.… (mehr)