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The Ambulance Drivers

Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9780306823831

Price: £25

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Rich in evocative detail–from Paris cafés to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West–The Ambulance Drivers tells the story of two aspiring writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who met in World War I and forged a twenty-year friendship that produced some of America’s greatest novels, giving voice to a generation shaken by war.

In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a nasty public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. This is not only a biography of the turbulent friendship between two of the century’s greatest writers but also an illustration of how war inspires and destroys, unites and divides.

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