Publisher's Synopsis
Introduction I was fascinated when I stumble upon the life of Hemingway to discover the terrible tragedies that happen in his family. I was compelled to compile this book on his exciting and tragic ending life. "Can someone be predisposed to be suicidal?" That is the question that plagues many Hemingway scholars, and indeed it seems that it exists in the Hemingway family. Ernest Hemingway's family tree is dotted with suicides and sudden tragic deaths, too many occurrences for one to merely disregard such tragedies as coincidence. Some believe that there exists the so- called "curse of the Hemingways," a way to explain the many deaths within the Hemingway family due to drug overdose or self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Ernest's case is the most well known, but suicide also struck his father, sister, brother, son, and granddaughter. The suicides among Ernest's parents and siblings family are numerous. Clarence Hemingway, Ernest's father, killed himself in 1928. However, Clarence battled depression and diabetes, and in the end shot himself in the head on December 6, 1928. Ernest's closest younger sister, Ursula, suffered from cancer and bouts of depression, andthen ended her life....and so on. The subject of the Cuban Revolution is intriguing; how Castro and his followers escaped death several times, and gaining freedom for their Country and becoming the first Country in the World to end discrimination and becoming an integrated Society to this day, living in peace with each other. Maybe because of their slogan: "No one here gives up!" or is it because Fidel Castro has African blood in his DNA and he didn't betray his Country and created a just Society for all his people, no matter what their ethnicity were. Cuba has one of the best Health System in the World, by not being plague with drugs, venereal diseases, deviant lifestyles, prostitution, gambling and the list goes on. Maybe if the United States copied their moral values we can become like them. There is no such thing and freedom any way. Ask yourself how free am I? Therlee Gipson"