Boxing with Hemingway

<p>Boxing with Hemingway</p><p>by D.H. Robbins</p><p><br></p><p>How much must a writer sacrifice of himself for the ghost of his genius? Quentin Flynn moved from Greenwich Village to Paris on a quest for a talent that had plagued him through his feckless yet successful career as a pulp novelist. Through his search to find a new literary style he finds Sarah Feldman a painter and commercial artist. She is at first a kindred spirit but then becomes his muse-not so much for his writing but for something else lacking in his life: how to feel love. He reaches his bottom to finally realize that he had been competing only with himself. As Quentin attempts to climb from the abyss of his self-doubts Sarah retreats into a discovery of her own through her hidden affection for Hannah a successful artist in Vienna.</p><p><br></p><p>Set in the mid-1920s in Montparnasse along with cameos of Vienna Berlin Florence and Hollywood Quentin brushes shoulders with Gertrude Stein Ernest Hemingway F Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Director Tod Browning and Isadora Duncan among others. </p>