{"product_id":"almost-hemingway-the-adventures-of-negley-farson-foreign-correspondent","title":"Almost Hemingway: The Adventures of Negley Farson, Foreign Correspondent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003eRelates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Ernest Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hemingway's in ways that compelled writers to compare them. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e                                                            \u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 288 pages\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 31 August 2021\u003cbr\u003e                              \u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e                          \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWould it surprise you to learn that there was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway’s who, in his romantic questing and hell-or-high-water pursuit of life and his art, was closer to the Hemingwayesque ideal than Hemingway himself? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlmost Hemingway\u003c\/em\u003e relates the life of Negley Farson, adventurer, iconoclast, best-selling writer, foreign correspondent, and raging alcoholic who died in oblivion. Born only a few years before Hemingway, Farson had a life trajectory that paralleled and intersected Hemingway’s in ways that compelled writers for publications as divergent as the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eField \u0026amp; Stream\u003c\/em\u003e to compare them. Unlike Hemingway, however, Farson has been forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis high-flying and literate biography recovers Farson’s life in its multifaceted details, from his time as an arms dealer to Czarist Russia during World War I, to his firsthand reporting on Hitler and Mussolini, to his assignment in India, where he broke the news of Gandhi’s arrest by the British, to his excursion to Kenya a few years before the Mau Mau Uprising. Farson also found the time to publish an autobiography, \u003cem\u003eThe Way of a Transgressor\u003c\/em\u003e, which made him an international publishing sensation in 1936, as well as \u003cem\u003eGoing Fishing\u003c\/em\u003e, one of the most enduring of all outdoors books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eF. Scott Fitzgerald, a fellow member of the Lost Generation whose art competed with a public image grander than reality, once confessed that while he had to rely on his imagination, Farson could simply draw from his own event-filled life. \u003cem\u003eAlmost Hemingway\u003c\/em\u003e is the definitive window on that remarkable story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e                            \u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 548g                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 162 x 238 x 26 (mm)                            \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9780813946672                                                      \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rex Bowman,Carlos Santos","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":42021633327354,"sku":"9780813946672","price":22.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/6ecca9b4a06d88497f054cc5ac089339.jpg?v=1636341638","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/almost-hemingway-the-adventures-of-negley-farson-foreign-correspondent","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}