The ONLY THING THAT COUNTS: The Ernest Hemingway/Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

By Ernest Hemingway

Book Overview

Chronicles a legendary career and a momentous era in literary historyIn 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Maxwell Perkins about a young American expatriate in Paris, an unknown writer with a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684815621
• ISBN13: 9780684815626
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Scribner
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Mail bonding between the great author and his editor

Hemingway was an indefatigable letter writer and as editor Bruccoli's introduction states he "wrote more words in letters than he wrote for publication, and letter writing became part of the mechanism of his literary career." This collection of correspondence between legendary Scribner's editor Max Perkins and his star author offers their personal insight into the writing and editing of Hemingway's works. Although Hemingway is now almost as famous for being a son of a bitch as he was for being a writer, he comes across here as a loyal and trusting friend-at least to Perkins. But most importantly these letters reveal him to be an artist first and foremost. The shooting, fishing, and drunken bravado that mark the Papa Hemingway persona are present but inconsequential here and what shines through is EH's complete, total, and unfaltering dedication to writing and how for him producing great literature was the only thing that counts. That insight makes this a valuable addition to Hemingway scholarship and an aficionado's delight.-Michael Rogers