Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's
sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression, and alcoholism, and
despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity - to struggling writers, to
lost souls, to the dying
son of a friend.
Although I recovered
despite almost
losing my own life during the birth process, my
son spent months in an intensive care unit, and his injuries resulting in a lifelong disability.