Lyons Press Hemingway's guns: the sporting arms of ernest hemingway, hardcover/silvio calabi

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Ernest Hemingway's friend A.

Hotchner once described a yellowed four-by-five picture of Ernest, shown him by Hemingway, aged five or six, holding a small rifle.

Written on the back in his mother's hand was the notation, 'Ernest was taught to shoot by Pa when 21/2 and when 4 could handle a pistol.

' Firearms and shooting infused Hemingway's existence and thus his writing.

He was a member of his high-school gun club and went to war when he was eighteen.

He hunted elk, deer, and bear in the.