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Windfalls: New Letters from Ernest Hemingway

“Private letter to you,” wrote to on December 1, 1929. Two months earlier, he’d followed the success of with his breakout, bestselling work, . In the , wrote that upon finishing the book, he is “still a bit breathless, as people often are after a major event in their lives. If before I die I have three more literary experiences as sharp and exciting and terrible as the one I have

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