STRANGE TRIBE: A FAMILY MEMOIR

Book ID/图书代码： 06814007B14919

English Summary/英文概要： This is the fascinating tale of the peculiar family dynamics of the Hemingway household - particularly between Ernest and his youngest son Gregory. "Strange Tribe" reveals how Gregory tried to live up to his father’s macho image throughout his life, but, as a cross-dresser and later trans-sexual, he struggled with his personal demons until his death in a Women’s Correctional Facility. This wonderfully crafted narrative explores how Ernest and Gregory - both of whom suffered from bipolar illness - were "two sides of the same coin." It is also the story of how Ernest Hemingway’s persona continues to loom darkly over the oft-troubled lives of his descendants.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者約翰海明威，是諾貝爾文學獎海明威的孫子。Publishers Weekly肯定作者誠實寫出海明威與小兒子格利高里(Gregory)與自己，這三代宿命的牽絆。
海明威一生形象曠野蕭灑，男子氣概十足，一生為精神疾病所苦，世人認為他患有躁鬱症，最後自殺身亡，他的家族成員，也有許多以自殺結束生命，這是「海明威氏的咀咒」。
作者的父親，也是海明威的小兒子格利高里，一心想成為女人，從早期變裝到晚年以變性手術終於如願，他一生在捍衛自己的性向，和男權的海明威，一直存在難以理斷的父子心結，後來他雖然結婚，有了約翰，但妻子也患有精神分裂症。約翰逃過「海明威氏的咀咒」，從仇視父母，到真心接納，忠實地描寫這個家族無法脫離的宿命，兩個有精神疾病的父子，一生各執己見，但人格特質卻又有相似之處。我們從這本書看到男人精神疾病的無助，也了解什麼命運才孕育出偉大的海明威與《老人與海》。

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About the Author/作者介绍： The author, grandson of Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway, and son of his youngest child, Gregory, investigates the similarities between these two paternal figures and seeks to find his place in their "strange tribe" with a "famous last name." Sure to excite fans and Hemingway scholars, the book does much to complicate Ernest’s image as a macho man, cataloguing both his dependence on women and his gender-bending proclivities. However, the true heart of the book is in exploring the Hemingways’ failure as parents and how the familial disposition toward manic-depression created a genetic "Hemingway curse." The author, having escaped the disease, paints his father and grandfather in blunt strokes as loving and generous men who had little understanding of their psychological disorder; the most endearing and comprehensive portrait is of his father’s struggles as a transvestite son of a "pillar of American manhood." When describing his own parents’ early neglect (his mother was schizophrenic) and, later, his partial reconciliation with his father, the book focuses on the author’s generation of Hemingways—but mostly the book is intent upon setting the record straight about Ernest, his youngest son and their similarities. John Hemingway writes honestly and is a sympathetic scrutinizer of this complicated and famous man, the family he parented and the myths to which his writing has given birth. (May)

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