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One true sentence, writers & readers on Hemingway's art, Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

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One true sentence

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Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon with an introduction by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick

writers & readers on Hemingway's art

"A selection of the greatest sentences by the master, Ernest Hemingway. Sentences that can take a reader's breath away and are not easily forgotten. Each sentence has been selected and examined by authors such as Elizabeth Strout, Andre Dubus III, Sherman Alexie, Paula McLain, and Russell Banks; Seán Hemingway, Valerie Hemingway, A. Scott Berg, and many others in this celebration and conversation between Hemingway and some of his most perceptive and interesting readers. "All you have to do is write one true sentence," Hemingway wrote in his memoir, A Moveable Feast. "Write the truest sentence that you know." If that is the secret to Hemingway's enduring power, what sentences continue to live in readers' minds? And why do they resonant? The host and producer of the One True Podcast have gathered the best of their program (heard by thousands of listeners) and added entirely new material for this collection of conversations about Hemingway's truest words. From the long, whole-story-in-a-sentence line ("I have seen the one-legged streetwalker who works the Boulevard Madeleine between the Rue Cambon and Bernheim Jeunes' limping along the pavement through the crowd on a rainy night with a beefy red faced episcopal clergyman holding an umbrella over her.") to the short, pithy line that closes The Sun Also Rises ("Isn't it pretty to think so?"), this is a collection full of delights, surprises, and insight. "All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened," wrote Hemingway. "And after you're finished reading one, you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards, it all belongs to you." For readers of American literature, One True Sentence is full of remembrances-of words you read and the feelings they gave you. For writers, this is an inspiring view of an element of craft-a single sentence-that can make a good story come alive and become a great story"--, Provided by publisher

Preface. One step closer to the man and his work : a preface in conversation / Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon -- Introduction. Hemingway : his one and only life / Ken Burns and Lynn Novick -- From A farewell to arms / Valerie Hemingway -- From The old man and the sea / Brian Turner -- FromFor whom the bell tolls / Alex Vernon -- From For whom the bell tolls / Mark Salter -- From "A clean, well-lighted place" / Elizabeth Strout -- From The sun also rises / Lesley M.M. Blume -- From A moveable feast / Paula McLain -- From"In another country" / Kirk Curnutt -- From "The snows of Kilimanjaro" / Craig Johnson -- From A farewell to arms and green hills of Africa / Marc K. Dudley -- From the "Paris 1922" sketches / Carl P. Eby -- From Green hills of Africa / Erik Nakjavani -- From The sun also rises / Stacy Keach -- From "Soldier's home" / Verna Kale -- From "Old newsman writes : a letter from Cuba" / Craig McDonald -- From "Ten Indians" / Andrew Farah -- From The sun also rises / Joshua Ferris -- From "Indian camp" / Ross K. Tangedal -- From "Big two-hearted river" / Suzanne del Gizzo -- From "A clean, well-lighted place" / Kawai Strong Washburn -- From A farewell to arms / Scott Donaldson -- From A moveable feast / Russell Banks -- From A farewell to arms / Gail Sinclair -- From "Big two-hearted river" / James Plath -- From "Hills like white elephants" / Andre Dubus III -- From "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" / Jennifer Haigh -- From Treasury for the free world / Adrian Sparks -- From A moveable feast / Paul Hendrickson -- From The sun also rises / A. Scott Berg -- From Men at war / Mark Thompson -- From "The short, happy life of Francis Macomber" / Sherman Alexie -- From "Cat in the rain" / Boris Vejdovsky -- From "Big Two-Hearted River" / Mark P. Ott -- From A farewell to arms / Michael Mewshaw -- From The old man and the sea / Seán Hemingway -- From Hemingway's letter to Charles Scribner / Hideo Yanagisawa -- From Hemingway's letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald / Pam Houston -- From "Indian camp" / Michael Katakis