The Only Thing That Counts - by Matthew J Bruccoli (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this collection of a correspondence between editor Maxwell Perkins and emerging writer Ernest Hemmingway, spanning more than two decades, readers endure their friendship and of Hemingway's development as a writer. 9 halftones. 6 line art.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In 1924 F. Scott Fitzgerald told his editor Maxwell Perkins about a young American expatriate in Paris, an unknown writer with a brilliant future. When Perkins wrote to Ernest Hemingway several months later, he began a correspondence spanning more than two decades and charting the career of the most influential American author of this century. The letters collected here are the record of a remarkable professional alliance--an enduring friendship between editor and author--and of Hemingway's development as a writer.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Perhaps the greatest pleasure to be gotten from this highly selective version of the Hemingway-Perkins exchanges, which is well served by Bruccoli's background annotations and a series of helpful chronological frames, is the chance to re-experience Perkins' pundit voice...</p>-- "Georgia Review"<br><br><p>The sources for many of the legendary Hemingway stories are here, told for the first time in Hemingway's own short, clear, seemingly careless voice.</p>-- "Boston Globe"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Matthew J. Bruccoli </b>(1931-2008) was the Emily Brown Jefferies Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of South Carolina and the leading authority on the House of Scribner and its authors. He was the editorial director of the <i>Dictionary of Literary Biography</i> and the author or editor of some one hundred books.</p>
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