True at First Light (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Memoirs
- Time of Work: 1953-1954
- Setting: Kenya
- Principal Characters: Ernest Hemingway, Miss Mary, Pop, Debba, G. C., Ngui, Keiti, Charo
- Genres: Long fiction, Autobiographical fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Africa or Africans, Authors or writers, Alcoholism or alcoholics, Substance abuse, Publishing or publishers, Bullfighting or bullfighters
- Locales: Kenya
Every reader of True at First Light, which Ernest Hemingway’s heirs and publishers report is the last of his posthumous works, should be reminded of John Updike’s comments on the publication of Islands in the Stream (1970). In words that apply to each of the works that have been issued in Hemingway’s name since his death, Updike wrote:
This book consists of material that the author during his lifetime did not see fit to publish; therefore it should not be held against him. That parts of it are good is entirely to his credit; that other parts are puerile and,...
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