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09/24/2011

The Slow Crack-Up

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Book Review: Hemingway’s Boat – WSJ.com

There are two sentences that sum up what happened to Hemingway. They were written neither by himself nor by Mr. Hendrickson but by Fitzgerald, whose own weaknesses Hemingway, his friend and rival, admirer and denigrator, threw in his face. They were words that Fitzgerald gave to Dick Diver in “Tender Is the Night” to explain his decline: “The change came a long way back—but at first it didn’t show. The manner remains intact for some time after the morale cracks.”

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