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True at first light

True at first light

by Ernest Hemingway

FictionFicciónBig game huntingCazaAnimales de caza
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First lines

Things were not too simple in this safari because things had changed very much in East Africa.

About this book

"Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953." (From the 1999 hardback edition dustjacket.)

Themes & subjects

FictionFicciónBig game huntingCazaAnimales de cazaAdventure stories

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Setting

KenyaSomewherenever definedleaving imagination to the reader1950sSet in the middle of the 20th centuryin Africabefore poachers and wars had damaged the the big game populations.

About the author

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

21 July 1899 – 2 July 1961

Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American writer and journalist. During his lifetime he wrote and had published seven novels; six collections of short stories; and two works of non-fiction. Since his death three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction autobiographical works have been published. Hemingway received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway was born and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school he worked as a reporter but within months he left for the Italian front to be an ambulance driver in World War I. He was seriously injured and returned home within the year. He married his first wife Hadley Richardson in 1922 and moved to Paris, whe…

Author

Ernest Hemingway

Pages

320

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

20

Languages

English, Spanish

Publisher

Scribner

ISBN

9780743203722

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