Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

In the footsteps of Hemingway

Susceptible people confuse his miraculous prose with their own lived experience

Le Grau-du-Roi, where Hemingway honeymooned with his second wife Pauline in 1927 [nik wheeler / Contributor] 
issue 14 May 2022

‘They were living at le Grau du Roi then and the hotel was on a canal that ran from the walled city of Aigues Mortes straight down to the sea.’ So begins Hemingway’s posthumously published transgender-themed novel The Garden of Eden. He began writing it in 1946 and kept at it intermittently through his long mental and physical decline.

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