HEMINGWAY’S BOAT: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961, by Paul Hendrickson (Knopf Doubleday, 544 pp.)
Award-winning writer Paul Hendrickson offers a fresh interpretation of the last decades of Hemingway’s life, built around his attachment to his boat, Pilar. Interviews with all three Hemingway sons add compelling new insight to our understanding of the writer. (September)