Boxing with Hemingway
By D.H. Robbins
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 seemingly eluded 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.
Set during the Jazz Age from 1925-1929, "Boxing with Hemingway" begins in the artsy Montparnasse district in Paris, a haven for struggling local and ex-patriot artists and writers. The story journeys through 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.
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David Robbins has been writing fiction for nearly 30 years. His first three novels-The Tu-tone DeSoto (2014), Chamelea (2019), and The Weight of Indifference (2020)-are all set in the 1960s. His fourth novel, 2028 (2022), is a speculative political thriller about life in America under an authoritarian government.A former art director and designer in publishing, Robbins now works as an independent publications strategist. He also leads a lecture and discussion series called The 1960s: Revisiting a Crucial Decade and has taught fiction writing workshops. Many of his students have gone on to become confident writers-something he finds especially rewarding.Robbins grew up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and now lives in Simsbury, Connecticut. He continues to write novels and short stories, and in his spare time, he works as a commercial and portrait photographer.