MY OLD MAN by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 24 March 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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The son of a steeplechase jockey recalls the good times he shared with his dad between tracks in Italy and France until an unexpected event occurs that changes the boy's life forever.
Hemingway and his wife Hadley lived in Paris, where he was foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star from 1922 until Hadley became pregnant in 1923 when they returned to Toronto. It was while in Paris that Hemingway wrote his first set of short stories, most of which were lost when his publisher's suitcase was stolen, but this one and a few others surviving because they had already been submitted. Hemingway Stories STORIES BY HEMINGWAY PODCAST
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome to 1001 classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.0 | We're very glad to finally be able to bring you a Hemingway Short Story, this just becoming |
| 0:38.9 | available in public domain on January 1 of this year. I promised there will be more to follow in the coming months and years. |
| 0:48.0 | My Old Man was published in Hemingway's 1923 book, Three Stories and Ten Poems. |
| 0:54.1 | First in Paris, then later included in his following collection of stories called |
| 0:58.8 | In Our Time, published in New York in 1925 by Bonnie and Liverwright. |
| 1:05.0 | Hemingway and his wife Hadley lived in Paris, where he was foreign correspondent for the Toronto |
| 1:09.8 | Star from 1922 until Hadley became pregnant in 1923 and at that point they returned to |
| 1:16.8 | Toronto. During his absence Bill Byrd's Parisian Three Mountains Press published a small collection of Hemingway's work, but previously |
| 1:26.1 | mentioned three stories and ten poems, which included My Old Man. |
| 1:32.1 | During the great suitcase debacle of the previous year, |
| 1:36.0 | when a suitcase containing all of Hemingway's manuscripts |
| 1:39.4 | was stolen from Hadley at a Paris train station, My old man was one of two stories to survive |
| 1:44.8 | because it was in the post to editors already. This short story was |
| 1:49.6 | possibly the first he ever wrote. |
| 1:56.0 | And I wonder if that suitcase ever turned up. |
| 2:02.0 | The story tells of a boy named Joe whose father is a steeplechase jockey, very dangerous work, and is narrated from Joe's point of view, |
| 2:06.0 | looking back upon their lives together in Europe as he followed his dad from the tracks in Italy to those near Paris. |
| 2:14.1 | Joe has to grow up fast, realizing that his father, |
| 2:17.4 | whom he idolized, isn't perfect, |
| 2:20.0 | and that the business of racing is crooked. |
| 2:23.9 | The story's importance lies in advancing the themes of American expatriates in post-World |
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