Lexington Books
Pages: 116
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Trim: 6 x 8 3/4
978-0-7391-8759-3 • Hardback • June 2015 • $78.00 • (£52.95)
978-0-7391-8760-9 • eBook • June 2015 • $74.00 • (£49.95)
Silvia Ammary is assistant professor of American literature and writing at John Cabot University in Rome.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Hemingway and Italy: A Unifying Space of Loss and Gain
Chapter Two: Italian Food as a Literary Device in Hemingway’s Fiction
Chapter Three: Hemingway and Spain: The Sacredness of the Land and Its People
Chapter Four: Hemingway and Paris: Aimless Tourism
Bibliography
Hemingway’s expert Silvia Ammary allows a deep plunge into Hemingways’s aesthetic Janus: the European varnish of his American stylistics. Written with impeccable knowledge of the author and a brilliant and sharp prose likewise, Ammary’s book becomes a must for any enthusiastic reader or scholar who aims at relishing into the immanent essences of Hemingway’s fiction and the influential medley of Italian, Spanish, and French undercurrents of his American universe—on such crucial keys as character building, psychology, the tantalizing treatment of food and drink, or the trans-Atlantic feat of the subject on the borderland…A splendid immersion that the Hemingway reader will welcome with the luxury of anticipation.
— Inmaculada Medina, The University of La Rioja
Ammary’s book inspires us to (re)turn to Hemingway’s fiction and journey with his characters through European spaces with gusto, more keenly aware of our intensified senses as we enter viscerally into his world citizenry.
— Lesley Clement, Lakehead University Orillia