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Podcast: 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Episode: MY OLD MAN by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Description: 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...