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The Hemingway Thief
Written by Shaun Harris
Narrated by Eric Michael Summerer
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Novelist Henry "Coop" Cooper is contemplating a new book between sipping rum and lounging on a Baja beach with hotel owner Grady Doyle. When Grady tries to save a drunk from two thugs, Coop tags along for the sake of a good story. The drunk is Ebbie Milch, a small-time thief on the run in Mexico because he has stolen the never-before-seen first draft of Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast from a wealthy rare book dealer.
The stolen manuscript is more than just a rare piece of literary history. It reveals clues to an even bigger prize: the location of a suitcase the young, unpublished Hemingway lost in Paris in 1922. A year's worth of his stories had vanished, never to be seen again. Until now.
But Coop and Grady aren't the only ones with their eyes on this elusive literary prize, and what starts as a hunt for a legendary writer's lost works becomes a deadly adventure. For Coop this story could become the book of a lifetime . . . if he lives long enough to write it.
The stolen manuscript is more than just a rare piece of literary history. It reveals clues to an even bigger prize: the location of a suitcase the young, unpublished Hemingway lost in Paris in 1922. A year's worth of his stories had vanished, never to be seen again. Until now.
But Coop and Grady aren't the only ones with their eyes on this elusive literary prize, and what starts as a hunt for a legendary writer's lost works becomes a deadly adventure. For Coop this story could become the book of a lifetime . . . if he lives long enough to write it.
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Rating: 3.368421047368421 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5DNF. Definitely not my type of mystery story. All too much improbability and not very subtle at all.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5a fine, fun yarn.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This isn't my usual kind of read, and maybe if I had read some of Hemingway's works first I wouldn't have been so taken with it, but I really liked it. I got where the author was going with the way-over-the-top characters and plot and saw it as an homage to and an exploration of the whole Hemingway-esque genre. It made me gasp in shock at times and laugh out loud often, and I loved the author's style. One awkward end to a plot line aside, I enjoyed the living hell out of this book.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5[1.5] "He had come into the Dingo Bar in the Rue Delambre where I was sitting with some completely worthless characters, …" - Scott Fitzgerald (from "A Moveable Feast"]) by Ernest Hemingway.It is a nice leap to take the phrase "some completely worthless characters" and extrapolate from it Hemingway's involvement with a Parisian criminal underworld and then take it further on down a few generations into the future. I was quite prepared to accept a few bumps and rough edges on the way with this first novel, but the cardboard absurdity of the characters just became a bit too much (not just one female assassin, but two!, a homicidal rare-book dealer, various drug dealers etc.) and the wrong notes in the Hemingwayiana and the Papaology finally just did me in.If you are just looking for something along the lines of a lightly dark-humoured hard-boiled cartoonish escapade caper this is perfectly fine. But if you are looking for something inventive that stays true to its slight Hemingway pedigree then you will likely be disappointed. There is a huge market for new Hemingway related fiction & non-fiction as any small search of Amazon's "Coming Soon" list will tell you (e.g. (as of late July 2016) "Hemingway, Three Angels, and Me", "Ernest Hemingway: A New Life", "When Paris Sizzled: The 1920s Paris of Hemingway, Chanel, Cocteau, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, and Their Friends", "The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway: A Kinderguides Illustrated Learning Guide" etc.). So if you put the name "Hemingway" in your title you are obviously hoping to capitalize on that. But you have live up to it as well.Examples of Hemingwayiana (book) errors:- Aleister Crowley does not appear in A Moveable Feast. It was Hillaire Belloc, who was, admittedly, mistaken for Aleister Crowley.- The novel about a smuggler ("To Have and Have Not", 1937) is referred to as a “late book” by Hemingway (1899-1961).Examples of Papaology (chronology/timeline) errors:- Hemingway's 2nd wife Pauline is referred to as his mistress in 1922, even though he didn't meet her until 1925.- A vigorous hard-drinking Hemingway is supposedly in Mexico six months before his death on July 2, 1961. This was actually the time (Dec 1960-Jan 1961) when he was at the Mayo Clinic receiving electroshock treatments for his suicidal depression.These sorts of things may not matter to most people. But I think they do matter to those who are looking for books of Hemingway-related interest. Thus my 1.5 rating, halfway between "did not like" and "it was ok".Further reading of related interest:- "Hemingway's Suitcase" by MacDonald Harris.- the Crowley/Belloc mixup was actually part of the original "The Sun Also Rises" but was cut then and later recycled into "A Moveable Feast". It can be read in its original version in the The Sun Also Rises: The Hemingway Library Edition which includes the various cuts as appendices.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed The Hemingway Thief. It started out as a simple tale of a writer unsatisfied with his very successful work writing romance novels under a pseudonym, but evolved into his search for a "real story" to jumpstart his career as a "serious writer". Harris tells a fun story filled with creative characters who are full of surprises! This was a fun one! Thanks Edelweiss for ARC!