True at First Light

Title: True at First Light
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Genre: East Africa Novel
Publisher: Arrow Books
London, United Kingdom 2000
Original softcover, 11 x 18 cm, 325 pages

Condition:

Good. Minor traces of usage.

About: True at First Light

Written when Ernest Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers. The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend, Pop, a legendary hunter, leaves him in charge of the camp. Meanwhile, tensions are heightening among the various tribes and news arrives of a potential attack. Hemingway must take on his new role of leader and, of equal importance, assist his wife Mary to pursue the great lion she is determined to kill before Christmas. Passionately detailing the African landscape, the thrill of the hunt, and the heartfelt relationships with his African neighbours, Hemingway, a master of dramatic fiction, weaves a tale that is rich in laughter, beauty and insight. True at First Light is an extraordinary and powerful novel from one of the twentieth-century's greatest writers.

'In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect weed-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable.'

Ernest Hemingway