“This is the an audiobook that makes an extraordinary piece of literature better…Their realistic Japanese accents define Bush’s characters, enhancing the listener’s experience. Further enhancing the audio presentation is the pacing of the narrators’ delivery, which allows every astounding revelation to unfold at precise moments. Listeners…will have a greater appreciation for Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Herman Melville, and many other authors…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
Description
The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
An English professor receives a mysterious package with several smaller packages within it, including a manuscript, from a recently deceased former student. The manuscript tells the former student’s story―a story he had never revealed to anyone. As a newly-minted Ph.D. from Yale, Jack Springs ended up in Kobe, Japan, circa 1992, where he encountered a mysterious Japanese professor of American literature named Goto. The second son of a family of immense wealth and power, Goto was a clandestine collector of literary rarities, manuscripts, and books. Through a series of meetings, Goto provided Jack with a systematic set of revelations about Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and other literary giants, all of which were supported by unknown documents in Goto’s possession. With the allure of these revelations, as well as Goto’s beautiful niece, Jack was drawn back to Goto’s house again and again until the tragic events on the day of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995 threatened to destroy all that had been revealed―including Jack’s sense of who he was and what he was capable of.
Praise
“This is the an audiobook that makes an extraordinary piece of literature better…Their realistic Japanese accents define Bush’s characters, enhancing the listener’s experience. Further enhancing the audio presentation is the pacing of the narrators’ delivery, which allows every astounding revelation to unfold at precise moments. Listeners…will have a greater appreciation for Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Herman Melville, and many other authors…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.” AudioFile
“Fascinating. Compelling. Engaging. The Hemingway Files is all of the above and so much more.” Dr. Matthew C. Nickel, author of Hemingway’s Dark Night
“In a gripping story both nuanced and layered, H. K. Bush creates a fable of literary obsession, longing, and the allure of the unknowable.” Janie Chang, author of Dragon Springs Road
“A literary treasure trove that unlocks the secret to one of the great mysteries in Hemingway biography.” Dr. James Hutchisson, author of Ernest Hemingway: A New Life
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Jun 19, 2017 |
| Release Date | June 20, 2017 |
| Release Date Machine | 1497916800 |
| Imprint | Blackstone Publishing |
| Provider | Blackstone Publishing |
| Categories | Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction - All, Fiction - Adult |
Author Bio
H. K. Bush is a professor of English at Saint Louis University, a former Fulbright Senior Scholar in Freiburg, and a senior fellow at Waseda Institute in Tokyo. Professor Bush is most noted for his work as a scholar of Mark Twain, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. He writes regularly in such popular venues as Books & Culture, Christian Century, the Cresset, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and is a founder and contributing editor for the Heithaus Haven online blog community.
Narrator Bio
Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.
Andrew Eiden, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor and voice artist. He has been acting since the age of four, working at regional theaters including La Mirada Theatre, the Glendale Center Theatre, and the Pasadena Playhouse. He has starred in dozens of national commercials, guest-spotted on numerous television shows, and has been a series regular on three programs: Discovery Channel’s Outward Bound, Disney Channel’s Movie Surfers, and most notably ABC’s Complete Savages
Overview
The allure of literary letters and rare first editions captures the imaginations of three professors of English literature and leads to tragedy in the wake of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995.
An English professor receives a mysterious package with several smaller packages within it, including a manuscript, from a recently deceased former student. The manuscript tells the former student’s story―a story he had never revealed to anyone. As a newly-minted Ph.D. from Yale, Jack Springs ended up in Kobe, Japan, circa 1992, where he encountered a mysterious Japanese professor of American literature named Goto. The second son of a family of immense wealth and power, Goto was a clandestine collector of literary rarities, manuscripts, and books. Through a series of meetings, Goto provided Jack with a systematic set of revelations about Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and other literary giants, all of which were supported by unknown documents in Goto’s possession. With the allure of these revelations, as well as Goto’s beautiful niece, Jack was drawn back to Goto’s house again and again until the tragic events on the day of the Great Kobe Earthquake of 1995 threatened to destroy all that had been revealed―including Jack’s sense of who he was and what he was capable of.
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