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Hemingway Exhibit Opens at JFK Library in Boston
Patrick Hemingway attends the show about his famous writer father, Ernest,
in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 12, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
The novelist Ernest Hemingway wrote 47 possible endings to his book "A
Farewell to Arms." Eightof them are part of a new show at the John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library in Boston,Massachusetts. The ending that Hemingway finally
chose is also there to see.
Patrick Hemingway is the writer’s only surviving child. This week, he
visited the library show. Hesaid the exhibit shows how hard his father
worked.
He said, "He always felt responsible for being where the action was. A lot
of writers just retire totheir rooms and describe their childhood. He didn't do
that."
The Kennedy Library holds the world's largest collection of documents,
photographs and personalbelongings of the famous writer. Library Curator Stacey
Bredhoff describes the Hemingwaycollection as one of the library's "greatest
treasures."
The show is called "Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars." It includes
material rarely shown inpublic. The Morgan Library & Museum in New York City
also presented the show last autumn.
Hemingway and Kennedy never met. However, Kennedy liked the writer’s work.
Kennedy wrote toHemingway for permission to use the novelist’s expression "grace
under pressure." Hemingwaywas too sick to accept an invitation to Kennedy’s
inauguration in January of 1961. The writer killedhimself later that year.
The show also includes Hemingway's first short story. It was published in
1917 in a high schoolmagazine. Visitors can also see letters between Hemingway
and other writers at the time.
Patrick Hemingway praised the show. "I am very pleased that they were able
to put together in mylifetime a very comprehensive picture of a person who
really represented very well the first half of the 20th century,'' he said.
Ernest Hemingway fled Finca Vigia, his home in Cuba, at the time of Fidel
Castro's revolution. Thewriter left much of all he owned on the island.
After the writer died, President Kennedy sought Cuba’s permission for
Hemingway's wife, Mary, tovisit the island and collect the belongings. A fishing
boat transported the property from Havana toFlorida.
Mary Hemingway established a relationship with Kennedy’s wife, Jacqueline,
after PresidentKennedy was murdered in 1963. They later decided to keep the
writer’s Cuba collection at theKennedy library.
Patrick Hemingway now lives in Bozeman, Montana. But he is represented in
the show. Aphotograph shows him and his father on a deep sea fishing boat.
Fishing was one of ErnestHemingway's great loves.
"He worked very hard in the morning but he never worked in the afternoon.
He had a great life,''Patrick Hemingway said of his father.
Words in This Story
novelist – n. a writer of fiction books
curator – n. a person who is in charge of the things in a museum, zoo,
etc
grace – n. a controlled, polite, and pleasant way of behaving
draft – n. a version of something (such as a document) that you make
before you make the finalversion
stationery – n. paper that is used for writing letters and that usually
has matching envelopes
comprehensive – adj. including many, most, or all things
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发表于 2017-10-31 23:21:11