The Young Hemingway

In this work, the author recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of his persona: his father's battle self-destructive with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spirituality. Michael Reynolds brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and the glory, despite being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes von Kurowsky - the older woman with whom he fell deeply in love.