Лучшие книги Аарон Эдвард Хотчнер

В 1961 году состоялась последняя встреча Аарона Эдварда Хотчнера с Эрнестом Хемингуэем, через несколько недель совершившим самоубийство. И их откровенный разговор стал заключительной главой в повести, которую Хемингуэй начал рассказывать своему другу больше десяти лет назад.

Откровенно и с насмешливой самоиронией "папа Хэм" поведал Хотчнеру о том, как случилось, что он потерял единственную женщину, которую любил по-настоящему, женщину, которой предстояло впоследствии оживать в самых ярких его героинях, женщину, которую он потом тщетно искал в других до конца своих дней.

Жизнь не кончается с утратой любви, но ни приключения, ни скитания по свету, ни слава так и не избавили Хемингуэя от тайных сожалений о той, которую он не смог и не сумел удержать.

Книга воспоминаний о Хемингуэе, написанная А.Е.Хотчнером, который был ему другом с конца 40-х годов и до последних дней его жизни. Четырнадцать лет они путешествовали вместе из Нью-Йорка в Париж, в Испанию и на Кубу, охотились в Айдахо. И везде вели долгие беседы, во время которых Хемингуэй рассказывал о своем детстве и о первых писательских опытах, вспоминал реальные события, которые потом ложились в основу его романов. "Я был близким другом Хемингуэя в течение четырнадцати лет… - писал А.Е.Хотчнер. - Мне многое известно об этом человеке - о его мечтах и разочарованиях. Хемингуэй считал, что читателю лгать нельзя, - именно этому принципу…

Biography of Doris Day with 36 pages of photographs and filmography. This unusual collaboration in the form of an autobiography brings together a highly skilled professional writer and the film superstar who never enjoyed being thought of as Miss Goody Two-shoes. For the first time, Doris Day tells the story behind the headlines of her private life- three marriages, real and rumored affairs, and professional triumphs countered by personal tragedies. At thirteen Doris was in a car hit by a train, and for a while she expected to be crippled for life. At sixteen she was earning her living on the road signing with bands. At seventeen she married a man who turned out to be a psychopathic sadist. She talks of many other things she never told anyone before, and her book is as compelling as it is honest. Mr. Hotchner, the author of Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir, has enriched her story with candid interviews with her son, Terry Melcher; her mother, her friends, and many of the people she has worked with including Bob Hope, James Garner, and Jack Lemmon. In this perceptive book, "the girl next door" turns out to be an inspiring woman of unique courage and strength.

In June of 1961, A.E. Hotchner visited an old friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--a few weeks later, Ernest Hemingway was released home, where he took his own life. Their final conversation was also the final installment in a story whose telling Hemingway had spread over more than a decade.
In characteristically pragmatic terms, Hemingway revealed to Hotchner the details

Pull up a seat. You’re invited to the best spot in town: Elaine’s, the Upper East Side bar and restaurant owned by quirky restaurateur Elaine Kaufman.

A true Manhattan original, Elaine nurtured young, hungry writers, artists, and performers who matured into the likes of Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson, Andy Warhol, and Norman Mailer.

In Everyone Comes to Elaine's, you'll find meaty morsels on American icons, including Jackie O., Judy, and Liza, and first-hand accounts of the night Frank Sinatra snubbed The Godfather author, Mario Puzo, and the time that Mia Farrow asked Michael Caine to introduce her to Woody Allen.

Everyone Comes to Elaine's is an insider's view of a cultural scene that closed it's doors officially in 2011, after the death of Elaine Kaufman, hostess and New York legend. There's no one better to to have told these great tales than award-winning author A. E. Hotchner, who was there all along.

In 1978, Paul Newman and A. E. Hotchner made a foray into local gourmet shops bearing bottles of their homemade salad dressing. Freewheeling, irreverent entrepreneurs, they conceived of their venture as a great way to poke fun at the mundane