The Resource Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend, Steve Paul
Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend, Steve Paul
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- Summary
- "In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the Star, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education that opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama. The Kansas City experience led Hemingway into the Red Cross ambulance service in Italy, where, two weeks before his nineteenth birthday, he was dangerously wounded at the front"--Dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 230 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
-
- Foreword / by Paul Hendrickson
- Introduction
- Prologue
- Summer of indecision
- Creative cauldron
- "The morally strenuous life"
- "The insignificance of self"
- A lack of vices
- The "great litterateur"
- A suicide, a flea, a vile place
- The ambulance run
- Crime and punishment
- The war beckons
- "Snap and wallop"
- "You see things"
- At the Piave
- Lies and disillusionment
- Coda
- Isbn
- 9781613739716
- Label
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Title
- Hemingway at eighteen
- Title remainder
- the pivotal year that launched an American legend
- Statement of responsibility
- Steve Paul
- Title variation
- Hemingway at 18
- Subject
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- trueAmbition in men
- trueEighteen-year-olds
- trueEurope -- History -- 1871-1918
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Childhood and youth
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueJournalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueKansas City, Missouri
- trueNewspapers
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1913-1921
- trueWorld War I
- trueAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biographies
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "In the summer of 1917, Ernest Hemingway was an eighteen-year-old high school graduate unsure of his future. The American entry into the Great War stirred thoughts of joining the army. While many of his friends in Oak Park, Illinois, were heading to college, Hemingway couldn't make up his mind and eventually chose to begin a career in writing and journalism at the Kansas City Star, one of the great newspapers of its day. In six and a half months at the Star, Hemingway experienced a compressed, streetwise alternative to a college education that opened his eyes to urban violence, the power of literature, the hard work of writing, and a constantly swirling stage of human comedy and drama. The Kansas City experience led Hemingway into the Red Cross ambulance service in Italy, where, two weeks before his nineteenth birthday, he was dangerously wounded at the front"--Dust jacket
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10599486
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1953-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Paul, Steve
- Dewey number
-
- 813/.52
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Hendrickson, Paul
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Hemingway, Ernest
- Authors, American
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- the pivotal year that launched an American legend
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- S9zj7G2wpx8
- Label
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend, Steve Paul
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foreword / by Paul Hendrickson -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Summer of indecision -- Creative cauldron -- "The morally strenuous life" -- "The insignificance of self" -- A lack of vices -- The "great litterateur" -- A suicide, a flea, a vile place -- The ambulance run -- Crime and punishment -- The war beckons -- "Snap and wallop" -- "You see things" -- At the Piave -- Lies and disillusionment -- Coda
- Control code
- ocn973810036
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 230 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781613739716
- Lccn
- 2017007515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973810036
- Label
- Hemingway at eighteen : the pivotal year that launched an American legend, Steve Paul
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-218) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Foreword / by Paul Hendrickson -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Summer of indecision -- Creative cauldron -- "The morally strenuous life" -- "The insignificance of self" -- A lack of vices -- The "great litterateur" -- A suicide, a flea, a vile place -- The ambulance run -- Crime and punishment -- The war beckons -- "Snap and wallop" -- "You see things" -- At the Piave -- Lies and disillusionment -- Coda
- Control code
- ocn973810036
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxiii, 230 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781613739716
- Lccn
- 2017007515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)973810036
Subject
- trueAmbition in men
- trueEighteen-year-olds
- trueEurope -- History -- 1871-1918
- Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Childhood and youth
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueJournalists -- United States -- Biography
- trueKansas City, Missouri
- trueNewspapers
- trueUnited States -- History -- 1913-1921
- trueWorld War I
- trueAuthors, American -- 20th century -- Biography
- Biographies
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