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YOURS, FOR PROBABLY ALWAYS: MARTHA GELLHORN'S LETTERS OF By Janet Somerville
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- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Firefly Books
- ISBN-10
- 0228101867
- ISBN
- 9780228101864
- Book Title
- Yours, for Probably Always : Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Firefly Books, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Letters, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.5in
- Item Weight
- 35.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 528 Pages
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Reflecting back on her life as a journalist, Martha Gellhorn insisted, "All I wanted to do was go everywhere and see everything and sometimes write about it. I suppose you're born with curiosity. I certainly wasn't trained. I spent my childhood riding the streetcars of St. Louis telling myself I was going to Samarkand. I have always wanted to travel and I have always been curious." Writing about what she saw and heard for newspapers and magazines was her passport to adventure. She hoped "in a humble and fairly hopeless way" that something she wrote "would make people notice, think a bit, affect how they reacted." The idea that her work might "change minds" was a stretch, but Gellhorn nevertheless believed that her words might be able to "wake minds" so that they would "know what's happening in the world." Book jacket.
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Publisher
Firefly Books, The Limited
ISBN-10
0228101867
ISBN-13
9780228101864
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16038266571
Product Key Features
Book Title
Yours, for Probably Always : Martha Gellhorn's Letters of Love and War 1930-1949
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Letters, Literary
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6.5in
Item Weight
35.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3513.E46
Reviews
It was a huge job to pull this all together and make it read smoothly when you are covering so much territory and Janet Somerville did that with perfect aplomb. She chose wisely so you see Gellhorn's wit, her charisma, but also her hard work and dedication to mankind., The remarkable Martha Gellhorn leaps from the pages of these vivid, witty, deeply human and humane letters. Through her loving curation and attention, Janet Somerville gives voice to a 20th century literary pioneer, too long in shadow., One wonders what will happen when future generations want to understand current famous figures. Look at Twitter accounts? Scrape emails? Thankfully, journalist Martha Gellhorn -- married to Hemingway for a short time -- corresponded by letter with some of the most famous people of her time. This book compiles these missives, many newly discovered, creating a portrait of a modern woman and a chronicle of the 20th century., Yours, for Probably Always is a rich resource about an extraordinary life well-lived. The literary stream-of-consciousness letters, uncensored and intimate, read like a novel. There are dramatic flashpoints, but also revelations of everyday existence that are equally absorbing. The book provides genuine insight about Martha Gellhorn and how real she was., As much as any woman in the twentieth century, Martha Gellhorn succeeded in her ambition to 'go everywhere and see everything and sometimes write about it.' It is wonderful to have this compendious new collection of letters from and to her, a few newly discovered. Janet Somerville has carefully set each group of correspondence in its historical context and further enriched them with photographs which even longtime Gellhorn admirers will not have seen., This is history as it was lived, and shared in intimate and emotional detail, among Gellhorn's lovers, husband, family and friends who were among the most important doers and thinkers of the time. Curated with valuable context by Janet Somerville... It's her own love letter of sorts to a woman she calls "a wonder"... This new offering reminds us how we read history through two prisms: a recollection of the past and a reflection on our own time. So much has changed, and so much is much the same, since our last Martha moment, reason enough to savour a new account... Now we have more of her own words, and those who admired and embraced her, to reflect again on her world and ours., Yours, For Probably Always is an essential book, a ticket into the past, a life spent wildly, often bravely, sometimes not so wisely... Janet Somerville has done a marvelous job with marvelous material. Bravo., You don't need to be familiar with Gellhorn's other writing in order to enjoy her letters; this collection simply fuels the desire to seek out and read all of her work. Her correspondents and Somerville speak so movingly about Gellhorn's reporting that the reader aches to experience these pieces first-hand, and reading how Gellhorn herself describes her fiction-writing process prompts a yearning to track down the final product.... It is important that Gellhorn take her place as a trailblazing journalist and author who made the world better for having written about what she saw., Book of the Year... Gellhorn was a glamorous novelist, social-justice activist, and fearless war correspondent who covered almost every major conflict of the 20th century. Yet she is most often treated as a historical footnote because of her short-lived marriage to Ernest Hemingway. Thanks to Somerville's tireless efforts, Gellhorn may finally receive the attention she rightfully deserves., (starred review) Somerville makes an impressive book debut with a life of novelist, journalist, and intrepid war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (1908-1998), told through a captivating selection of her letters to friends, family, husbands, and lovers. The volume is enriched by Somerville's biographical narrative and her decision to include responses of many recipients and, in some cases, letters between individuals who were especially significant in Gellhorn's life... An engrossing collection that burnishes Gellhorn's reputation as an astute observer, insightful writer, and uniquely brave woman., This carefully curated collection of letters between war correspondent, journalist and novelist Gellhorn and her friends, colleagues and lovers -- among them Dorothy Parker, Chiang Kai-shek and her husband, Ernest Hemingway -- reveals the exciting life of a brilliant woman whose work paved the way for many who followed behind her., A must-read... Captures an extraordinary period in Gellhorn's life... Yours, for Probably Always offers love letters, family exchanges, reports on daily life and missives about politics and conflict. The book is history, geography, psychology and biography all at once... The book includes letters she exchanged with an amazing cast of characters, including H.G. Wells, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Ernest Hemingway -- a riveting fabric that author Somerville stitches together for the reader with a fine thread of biographical detail, bits of conversation, concurrent events and keen observation. Somerville is a magician here, somehow organizing and conveying a mountain of biographical information with brevity and great style., Martha Gellhorn was courageous and committed in love and in war. What a pleasure reading her correspondence and being reminded of how beautifully she wrote, filled with passion and insight., Martha Gellhorn was courageous and committed in love and in war. What a pleasure reading her correspondence and being reminded of how beautifully she wrote, filled with passion and insight. Yours, for Probably Always is a rich resource about an extraordinary life well-lived. The literary stream-of-consciousness letters, uncensored and intimate, read like a novel. There are dramatic flashpoints, but also revelations of everyday existence that are equally absorbing. The book provides genuine insight about Martha Gellhorn and how real she was. It was a huge job to pull this all together and make it read smoothly when you are covering so much territory and Janet Somerville did that with perfect aplomb. She chose wisely so you see Gellhorn's wit, her charisma, but also her hard work and dedication to mankind. The remarkable Martha Gellhorn leaps from the pages of these vivid, witty, deeply human and humane letters. Through her loving curation and attention, Janet Somerville gives voice to a 20th century literary pioneer, too long in shadow. Yours, For Probably Always is an essential book, a ticket into the past, a life spent wildly, often bravely, sometimes not so wisely... Janet Somerville has done a marvelous job with marvelous material. Bravo., The letters of the intrepid and passionate war correspondent, Martha Gellhorn -- collected by Janet Somerville in Yours, For Probably Always -- written during the Spanish Civil War and WWII -- have an immediacy and fluency that's very up close and appealing.
Table of Content
Contents Foreword Prologue Chapter 1 Nothing Ever Happens Chapter 2 What Mad Pursuit Chapter 3 The Trouble I've Seen Chapter 4 The Spanish Earth Chapter 5 High Explosive for Everyone Chapter 6 Death in the Present Tense Chapter 7 Mr. Ma's Tigers Chapter 8 Messing about in Boats Chapter 9 The View from the Ground Chapter 10 The Face of War Chapter 11 The Heart of Another Chapter 12 Love Goes to Press Chapter 13 Point of No Return Afterword Appendix Timeline Selected Further Reading Acknowledgments Letter Citations Notes Photo Credits Index
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2019-933683
Dewey Decimal
813/.52
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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