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True At First Light
  • Published: 7 April 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099282129
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
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True At First Light

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A unique blend of fiction and memoir, about hunting, marriage and Africa, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell To Arms.

The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Tensions have heightened among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack on the hunters, forcing Hemingway not only to take on his new role of leader but, equally important, to assist his wife Mary in pursuing the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionately detailing the African landscape, the excitement of the chase, and the heartfelt relationships with his African neighbours, Hemingway, a master of dramatic fiction, weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and insight.

Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True At First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers.
  • Published: 7 April 2000
  • ISBN: 9780099282129
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Ernest Hemingway

ERNEST HEMINGWAY was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, the child of a physician and a musician. After high school, he became a journalist with The Kansas City Star, before enlisting to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He returned home after a serious injury in 1918, but his military experience informed his fiction, especially A Farewell to Arms. He worked as a war correspondent for The Toronto Star during his first marriage, and over the next three marriages he would live in Paris, London, Key West, and Cuba. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two nonfiction titles. On safari in Africa in 1952 he survived two plane crashes, though his obituaries ran prematurely. He lived on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Two trunks of his early work from Paris reappeared in 1957, and inspired him to write his memoir A Moveable Feast. He eventually committed suicide in Idaho in 1961.
portrait photo of Ernest Hemingway

Also by Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Moveable Feast
Fiesta
To Have and Have Not
The Annotated Sun Also Rises
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Praise for True At First Light

Captures the beauty of the African landscape and the thrill of the hunt, in true Hemingway style

Red

This is writing of a high order; sympathetic, luminous, hypnotic, humane

Caledonia