True at first light

ISBN: 0684865726(paperback)
ISBN: 9780684865720
Physical Description: 319 pages ; 21 cm regular print
Edition: First Scribner paperback fiction edition.
Publisher: New York : Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2000
Copyright: &copy;1999

Hemingway, Ernest 1899-1961 (author.). Hemingway, Patrick, (editor.).

Summary: "Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession, and Ernest becomes involved with a young African girl whom he supposedly plans to take as a second bride. Increasingly enchanted by the local African community, he struggles between the attraction of these two women and the wildly different cultures they represent."-- Amazon.