Hemingway's Cuban son : reflections on the writer by his longtime Majordomo / René Villarreal & Raúl Villarreal.

?This is the story of a poor, young Cuban boy who grew into a man and gained the trust and respect of a famous American author, whom he loved like a father. A man he called?Papa.???from the Preface: In 1996 Ren Villarreal returned to Cuba to retrieve his memoir of his life with Ernest Hemingway at t...

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Main Author: Villarreal, René, 1929-
Contributors: Martínez, Raúl, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, ©2009.
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Genre/Form:Biographies
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cuba 1996
  • The Finca
  • Call him Papa
  • The gardener
  • Popito
  • Working in paradise
  • The ghost in the darkness
  • A time of war
  • Papa comes home
  • Miss Mary
  • After war, peace
  • Old friends
  • Royal treatment
  • The killers
  • The tower
  • Morning's juice
  • The old man and the siren
  • The men in white coats
  • African safari
  • The Nobel Prize
  • The ceiba tree
  • In the lion's den
  • Boxing Hemingway
  • Turbulent times
  • The family man
  • La Revolución
  • Cuba 1961
  • Mary, again
  • Paradise lost
  • Expulsion from paradise
  • In dreams.