Hemingway's classic novel about smuggling, intrigue and love.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield - this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war - in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
This active, passionate life on the verge of the tropics is perfect
material for the Hemingway style, and the reader carries away from
the book a sense of freshness and exhilaration
*New Statesman*
Absorbing and moving. It opens with a fusillade of bullets, reaches
its climax with another, and sustains a high pitch of excitement
throughout
*Times Literary Supplement*
Its tragic scenes are rendered with an economy of words and a power
that might well be the despair of a lesser writer
*Scotsman*
Absorbing and moving. It opens with a fusillade of bullets, reaches
its climax with another, and sustains a high pitch of excitement
throughout
*Times Literary Supplement*
Its tragic scenes are rendered with an economy of words and a power
that might well be the despair of a lesser writer
*Scotsman*
This active, passionate life on the verge of the tropics is perfect
material for the Hemingway style, and the reader carries away from
the book a sense of freshness and exhilaration * New Statesman
*
Absorbing and moving. It opens with a fusillade of bullets, reaches
its climax with another, and sustains a high pitch of excitement
throughout * Times Literary Supplement *
Its tragic scenes are rendered with an economy of words and a power
that might well be the despair of a lesser writer * Scotsman *
Absorbing and moving. It opens with a fusillade of bullets, reaches
its climax with another, and sustains a high pitch of excitement
throughout * Times Literary Supplement *
Its tragic scenes are rendered with an economy of words and a power
that might well be the despair of a lesser writer * Scotsman *
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