Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing - from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) - this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene.īeginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, *In Our Time* provides a key to Hemingway's later works.įirst published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer - a man much like Hemingway himself. *In Our Time* contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories 'Indian Camp,' 'The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife,' 'The Three Day Blow,' and 'The Battler,' and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose - enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. When *In Our Time* was published, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS

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