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SPECIAL EVENTS
Ernest Hemingway’s Library
Venue: Event Centre, Cape Quarter
Lifestyle Village, Green Point. Tel: (021) 424 0470
Time: Mon - Fri: 10:00am - 6:30pm, Sat & Sun: 100:00am till
late
Price: -
Performances: 9 - 18 April 2010
Genre: Literature
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Ernest Hemingway’s Library is an exciting
once-off sale for book, movie and music-lovers and collectors running over
ten days from Friday 9 April to Sunday 18 April at the Event Centre at the
new Cape Quarter Lifestyle Village, Green Point.
A fund-raising initiative, Ernest
Hemingway’s Library is curated by Well Read Books with proceeds going to
Wola Nani, the AIDS NGO focusing on the needs of women, orphans and
vulnerable children infected and affected by the pandemic.
Taking the Nobel prize-winning author as
its inspiration, the venue will be selling both best-selling and
hard-to-find second-hand books, DVDs, CDs as well as other related
ephemera. In addition, the Hemingway lifestyle will be channeled with
rare single malt whisky tastings, Lindt chocolate pairings and other
experiences that we think the iconic writer would have enjoyed.
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The parlour-game challenge posed by this
event is : If Hemingway were alive today, which books/authors would he be
reading? What music would he listen to? Which films or movie stars would
he watch?
At Ernest Hemingway’s Library, we will be
offering the kinds of books that we think Hemingway would have collected
if he were still living:
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Africana
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Cult classics by other Nobel and
Pulitzer prize winners
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Modern First Editions
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Titles on hunting, fishing and shooting
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Travel and exploration
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History and non-fiction
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Biographies
In addition, in honour of the ladies in
his life (Hemingway was much married and had friendships with some of the
most glamorous women of the time including Ava Gardener and Marlene
Dietrich), there will be a diverse array of books on fashion and style, as
well as popular women’s fiction. There will also be a good selection of
children’s books and movies.
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