Appetite for Destruction
Ernest Hemingway’s death trip
Joy Williams

Ernest Hemingway:
A Biography
by Mary V. Dearborn
Knopf
$35.00 List Price
The unusually striking photograph on the cover of Mary V. Dearborn’s new biography Ernest Hemingway shows the writer in his prime in 1933 sitting on the cushioned stern of a boat, possibly his thirty-eight-foot cabin cruiser the Pilar, and aiming a pistol at the camera. He always carried guns on board to shoot sharks or, when bored or annoyed, seabirds and turtles. He was thirty-four when this photo was taken and he had
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