The first meeting between Ernest Hemingway
and Orson Welles ended in thrown punches and exchanged insults. This most
unlikely of pairings would go on to have a tumultuous friendship that would
last for the next twenty-five years.



Lyrical and unafraid to tackle the
difficulty of conveying the lives of two legendary self-mythologisers, this
fascinating literary biography explores their intersecting paths, passions and
love for Spain. Brought together by the Spanish Civil War and bound by
bullfighting and the high life, Hemingway and Welles found their lives and art
intertwining for more than two decades, as their fates gradually began to
mirror one another.



Pete Carvill, author of the
acclaimed Death of a Boxer, uses extensive research and literary
flourish to bring to life this epic tale of two of the twentieth century’s most
formidable figures.