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Hemingway Man
Hemingway Man
Hemingway Man
Jim Maher
Hemingway Man is the story of Will Charles, a young man who's just lost his father. Will feels the intense pressure to become the man of the house, but has no idea how to get there. Ernest Hemingway wrote a list of four tasks a boy must do to become a man. 1. Plant a tree. 2. Write a book. 3. Fight a bull. 4. Have a son. Good luck, Will.

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Genre: 

  • Fiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
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In the book The Hemingway Man, a sixteen year old Will has 
just lost his father. At his father's funeral, one of his 
dad's friends approaches him, and tells him that he will now 
have to be the man in the family. Will is very lost on this 
subject because he has no one to guide him into manhood. 
Will searches for guidance, and finds a role model in Ernest 
Hemingway, an American writer. Hemingway had four steps to 
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