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...PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. Writing with candor and affection, an old friend gives a lively account of the most famous literary man of his generation...
...PAPA HEMINGWAY, by A. E. Hotchner. A lively account of how the most famous literary man of his generation worked, played, loved and died, told by an old friend with candor and affection...
...Papa Hemingway, Hotchner...
...brothers de Pasquale, the concert was the realization of an old man's dream. Papa de Pasquale, an im migrant violin teacher, had one ideal in life: to raise a professional string quartet. But in Germantown baseball was the thing, and the de Pasquale boys were forever tossing their baseball equipment out of the second-floor window and sneaking off to the diamond. On Sunday afternoons, however, they were held captive in the living room and made to listen to recordings by Kreisler and Casals. "That's what it should sound like," Papa would say, and then...
...Moscow there are other forces, other plans. When the revolution comes, Papa's bank account, position, all go into the Red. The family must eat; Vladimir, the hothouse flower, protected and indulged during his first 17 years, blossoms into a full-time professional pianist at 18. Only 200 people -most of them admitted free - attend his first concert. At the second, there are more paying customers. The third is a sellout. The career and the reputation gather velocity but not money. Vladimir is paid with bread, sausages, clothing; he is, literally, the family breadwinner...