Curtis L. Deberg Wrestling with Demons

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What exactly happened the night of July 8, 1918, by the Piave River, on the Italian front, to a young, loud, brash American ambulance driver? This Red Cross volunteer should never have been that closetotheAustriantrenches just across the water-within hearing distance. WhatifthewoundthatErnest Hemingway suffered that nightwasanentirelydifferent wound from the mortar-blast wound that he allowed biographers to enshrine as the explanation for his life-long trauma? How might this other wound have festered psychologically, decade after decade, under thepressuresanddistortions of a hypomanic personality? Join Curtis L. DeBerg in retracingwhathappenedthat July night in Italy that saw a young Italian soldier die before Hemingway's eyes - and what happened in the years afterwards, as an unnaturally gifted and sensitive, ferociously combative and disciplined artistwrestledwithhisinner torments that ended in estrangement from his parents, broken marriages, pain, alcoholism, bitter rivalries,alcoholism and, finally, suicide.

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