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    Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
    Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
    Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
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    Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba

    By Robert Wheeler and América Fuentes

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    Ernest Hemingway lived in Cuba for more than two decades, longer than anywhere else. He bought a home—naming it the Finca Vigia—with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn and wrote his masterpiece The Old Man and the Sea there. In Cuba, Papa Hemingway found a sense of serenity and enrichment that he couldn’t find anywhere else. Now, through more than a hundred color photographs and accompanying text, Robert Wheeler takes us through the streets and near the water’s edge of Havana, and closer to the relationship Hemingway shared with the Cuban people, their landscape, their politics, and their culture. Wheeler has followed Hemingway’s path across continents—from La Closerie des Lilas Café in Paris to Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West to El Floridita in Havana—seeking to capture through photography and the written word the essence of one of the greatest writers in the English language. In Hemingway’s Havana, he reveals the beauty and the allure of Cuba, an island nation whose deep connection with the sea came to fascinate and inspire the writer. The book includes a foreword by América Fuentes who is the granddaughter of the late Gregorio Fuentes, the captain of Hemingway’s boat Pilar and his loyal and close friend.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781510732667
    Hemingway's Havana: A Reflection of the Writer's Life in Cuba
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    Robert Wheeler

    Robert Wheeler fondly recalls time spent with his daughters along Boston’s Freedom Trail, from pushing a stroller, to walking hand-in-hand. The rich and fascinating stories evoked by each historic site, as well as the exceptional charm of Boston’s quaint city streets, shops, and restaurants, lured him back again and again, inspiring this sensory and absorbing book. Robert is also the author of Hemingway’s Paris: A Writer’s City in Words and Images and Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba. He lives near the sea in New Castle, New Hampshire, with his wife, Meme.

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      Hemingway's Havana - Robert Wheeler

      Also by Robert Wheeler

      Hemingway’s Paris: A Writer’s City in Words and Images

      Copyright © 2018 by Robert Wheeler

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without the express written consent of the publisher, except in the case of brief excerpts in critical reviews or articles. All inquiries should be addressed to Skyhorse Publishing, 307 West 36th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10018.

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      Skyhorse® and Skyhorse Publishing® are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.®, a Delaware corporation.

      Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. Visit the author’s site at www.facebook.com/robertwheelerauthor/.

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Wheeler, Robert, 1963– author.

      Title: Hemingway’s Havana : a reflection of the writer’s life in Cuba / Robert Wheeler.

      Description: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2018]

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017046291 (print) | LCCN 2017046417 (ebook) | ISBN 9781510732667 (ebook) | ISBN 9781510732650 (hardcover : alk. paper)

      Subjects: LCSH: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961–Homes and haunt–Cuba. | Hemingway, Ernest, 1899–1961–Knowledge–Cuba. | Authors, American–20th Century–Biography. | Americans–Cub–Biography. | Cuba–Description and travel.

      Classification: LCC PS3515.E37 (ebook) | LCC PS3515.E37 Z945 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.52 [B]–dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017046291

      Cover design by Erin Seaward-Hiatt

      Cover photo by Robert Wheeler

      Printed in China

      Para Meme … mi inspiradora. Sólo quiero decirte una vez más: aquí estoy para ti. Hoy te amo más que ayer.

      For Meme … my inspirer. I just want you to know that I am here for you. Today, I love you more than yesterday.

      Contents

      FOREWORD by América Fuentes

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION

      THE SEA

      THE LAND

      THE WORK

      THE VISIT

      FINCA VIGÍA, SAN FRANCISCO DE PAULA

      WALKS

      HOTELS

      RESTAURANTS

      EPILOGUE

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      He would rather fish than eat or sleep.

      Foreword

      By América Fuentes Translated from the Spanish by Carla Estrada

      My grandfather, Gregorio Fuentes, met Ernest Heming-way in the Dry Tortugas. They were both staying there to protect themselves from an oncoming storm. My grandfather helped Hemingway make a phone call to the States to let people know he was not lost and was safe. Thankful for his help, Hemingway promised that he would find my grandfather and see him in Cuba one day. Hemingway kept his promise, came to Cuba, and looked for six months, but did not find him. Then one day, someone placed a call to Hemingway and told him that Gregorio was on shore and that Hemingway could meet him. Hemingway left immediately for this specific reason. They met—ate, drank, and spoke—and Hemingway proposed that Gregorio become the captain of his boat, the Pilar. From that time, to the day Hemingway died, they were forever together.

      For me, the presence of Hemingway in my village and at my house daily was so normal that I never saw him as a famous person. He was like part of my family, and we treated him like a member of my family. The thing that I liked, and loved, about the friendship of my grandfather and Hemingway was the genuineness and passion and the dedication and affection they both shared of the sea. The experience and knowledge my grandfather had about the secrets of the sea impressed Hemingway. My grandfather often said that, always, he would do whatever the sea expected of him.

      Something else they shared in common was how a man should be … how he must live. A man must be friendly and honest, and simple and humble, and have a sense of solidarity. In their eyes, men had to possess these traits to be real men and to be counted. Hemingway and my grandfather—they were not just about the sea but also about how a man must behave in the world.

      Both Hemingway and my grandfather took Cuba as their second home. My grandfather was from Spain, the Canary Islands. He came to Cuba very young in a boat from Spain as a hired cabin boy. When the boat came into the bay of Havana, he jumped over the

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