RUNNING WITH THE BULLS : MY YEARS WITH THE HEMINGWAYS
Book ID/图书代码： 01240004B08542
English Summary/英文概要： A chance encounter in Spain in 1959 brought young Irish reporter Valerie Danby-Smith face to face with Ernest Hemingway. The interview was awkward and brief, but before it ended something had clicked into place. For the next two years, Valerie devoted her life to Hemingway and his wife, Mary, traveling with them through beloved old haunts in Spain and France and living with them during the tumultuous final months in Cuba. In name a personal secretary, but in reality a confidante and sharer of the great man’s secrets and sorrows, Valerie literally came of age in the company of one of the greatest literary lions of the twentieth century.
Five years after his death, Valerie became a Hemingway herself when she married the writer’s estranged son Gregory. Now, at last, she tells the story of the incredible years she spent with this extravagantly talented and tragically doomed family.
In prose of brilliant clarity and stinging candor, Valerie evokes the magic and the pathos of Papa Hemingway’s last years. Swept up in the wild revelry that always exploded around Hemingway, Valerie found herself dancing in the streets of Pamplona, cheering bullfighters at Valencia, careening around hairpin turns in Provence, and savoring the panorama of Paris from her attic room in the Ritz. But it was only when Hemingway threatened to commit suicide if she left that she realized how troubled the aging writer was-and how dependent he had become on her.
In Cuba, Valerie spent idyllic days and nights typing the final draft of A Moveable Feast, even as Castro’s revolution closed in. After Hemingway shot himself, Valerie returned to Cuba with his widow, Mary, to sort through thousandsof manuscript pages and smuggle out priceless works of art. It was at Ernest’s funeral that Valerie, then a researcher for Newsweek, met Hemingway’s son Gregory-and again a chance encounter drastically altered the course of her life. Their twenty-one-year marriage finally unraveled as Valerie helplessly watched her husband succumb to the demons that had plagued him since childhood.
From lunches with Orson Welles to midnight serenades by mysterious troubadours, from a rooftop encounter with Castro to numbing hospital vigils, Valerie Hemingway played an intimate, indispensable role in the lives of two generations of Hemingways. This memoir, by turns luminous, enthralling, and devastating, is the account of what she enjoyed, and what she endured, during her astonishing years of living as a Hemingway.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者于1959年，年仅19岁时，担任了20世纪大文学家海明威的私人秘书，1960年，她陪伴海明威夫妇去古巴旅行，就是在那儿她帮助海明威整理了他的著作《不散的筵席》的手稿，也是在那儿海明威告诉她有自杀的想法。1966年她嫁给海明威的儿子，他们生育了4个孩子，但于1987年离婚。从1959年到1961年的两年里，她一直跟随着海明威夫妇，参与了他们的所有活动。海明威死后，她又参与了海明威遗稿的处理。现在，她运用海明威的私人文件和照片，从独特的视角讲述了这位大文学家最后几年的生活。
1959年的一次偶遇使爱尔兰记者Valerie Danby-Smith能够和美国文坛巨擘厄内斯特•海明威面对面的接触。这次短暂的访谈多少显得有点拘谨，但是在访谈临近结束时，情况出现了转机。 接下来的两年里，Valerie全身心的投入到为海明威和他妻子 Mary 工作中去了，她经常陪他们惠顾西班牙和法国那些他俩平日里最爱去的地方， 与他们共同度过了在古巴的最后的混沌岁月。Valerie名誉上她是个私人秘书，可实际上她还是这位伟人的知音，会和她分享他的隐私和心酸。可以说Valerie 是在与二十世界文坛翘楚做伴的过程中渐渐成长的。Valerie 在海明威死后的第五年也成了海明威，她嫁给了这位大作家的儿子Gregory ，Gregory和海明威关系很疏远。 终于，她现在要把她与这个才华肆意、又命运多舛的家庭生活在一起的非凡的日子编织成文讲述出来。Valerie 以言简意赅的文字和尖酸的直白勾勒出了海明威最后的神奇岁月，也唤起了人们对他那段日子所产生的哀怜。在古巴Valerie 过上了幽闲、恬静的生活，她日日夜夜赶着打出《生命之旅》的最后成稿，甚至当卡斯特罗的革命枕戈待发时，她都没动摇过。当海明威开枪自杀后，Valerie 和海明威的遗孀Mary 回到了古巴，整理了数千页的手稿，还偷偷地把数件艺术珍品带出了古巴。当Valerie 还是《新闻周刊》的调查员时，她遇到了海明威的儿子Gregory ----那还是在海明威的葬礼上，可以说这一次的巧遇再次彻底地改变了她的人生轨迹。随着他丈夫无法摆脱自儿时起就一直折磨他的魔鬼，最终彻底放弃反抗，而她对此却毫无办法，他们长达二十一年的婚姻最后还是结束了。从与奥臣华尔斯进行的午餐From lunches with Orson Welles to，到午夜神秘的民谣歌手带来的小夜曲， 再到与卡斯特罗的屋顶奇遇，以及在医院里不知疲倦的守夜，Valerie海明威在海明威家族的两代人的生活里扮演着不可缺少的亲密角色，这本传记既引人入胜又有很强的启迪意义，极其精彩，它叙述了Valerie作为海明威家族成员的的神奇生活中的喜怒悲哀。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Valerie Hemingway is a freelance writer and editor. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.
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