En Nuestro Tiempo / in Our Time

After years of avoiding Hemingway because I was tired of his misogyny and male terseness, I have come back to him again. We read For Whom the Bell Tolls in book group, which revived my interest, and now these stories. His writing loses nothing for the paucity of adjectives, partly because the nouns and verbs are so strong and clear. His description of trout swimming in "Big Two-Hearted River" is breathtakingly perfect. Words like shot and angle and surface and caught and tightened manage to describe a trout moving in water with absolute precision.

There is no one better than Hemingway to describe humans being in nature, and humans facing all the challenges that we face, death being the ultimate. A great collection of stories.