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Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences

by James R. Mellow · 1992

Lost Generation Trilogy series

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In this brilliant, elegantly written biography, award-winning author James R. Mellow offers a thorough reassessment of a man who was both a literary giant and an icon for his age. The final volume in Mellow's "Lost Generation" trilogy, Hemingway: A Life Without Consequencesis also a homage to Paris in the 1920s and a tribute to the writers and artists who set the indelible standards for the modern age.

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adult
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epic · 736 pages

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