Sounds amazing Tom.
I remember that you were not such a big fan (to put it delicately) of How It Was so I can well imagine you enjoyed having another perspective on, er....how it was.
Hope you are well and glad to see you on Facebook.
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I just finished Hemingway's Cuban Son and found it to be a great read. I admit to bias. Raul and Rene are my friends. That said, Rene describes Hemingway from a unique perspective.
Rene Villarreal was Ernest Hemingway's major domo, his butler...
The writer grew up in the Mississippi Delta down Highway 61 to become a rolling stone and a journalist. The profession allowed him the opportunity to travel a considerable amount of the planet and live in such diverse places as Miami, Guam, London, New York and Tokyo. He made the pilgrimage to Graceland, toured Imelda Marcos' closet and Lenin's tomb, and drank rum with the deceased Hemingway while watching the sunrise over the writer's grave in Idaho. He reacted to his mid-life crisis by dropping out and buying a historic and dilapidated old hotel on a remote Florida barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. The experience provided him with plenty of colourful characters and background for his writing endeavours. He lives now in Lancing on the South coast of England where he is houseboy for his Yorkshire wife when he is not hanging out with his friend The Real Kramer in Manhattan. He wishes he could live underwater. He spends his days with his faithful basset hound Barnaby, seeking inspiration, and trying to write something worthwhile before he gets sucked into the cosmic hereafter.
Hey Tom, did I ever responde to this email? It's been 6 months since I even looked at this site. I'd forgotten all about it. Here is my email just in case: pilar1951@yahoo.com