Hardcover, 144 pages
English language
Published July 6, 1999 by Scribner.
I cannot in good conscience call these stories bad. What I can do is call them entirely forgettable. I have finished the book and I have retained nothing. It is, honestly, faintly impressive.
So there seems to be more than one collection of Hemingway shorts with this title. The one I read is really just the 1930-edition of In Our Time with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" added.
Most of the short stories in this book is great, and somewhat what I expected from Hemingway, having only heard about his writing style. Most of the stories seem to somehow be about people wanting to find peace and/or relaxation in a difficult time, but there are stories that also don't fit this mold. Love, friendship, appriciation (and respect) for nature and death go through all of these, but all seen from a similar perspective - which makes sense, as I understand that many of these shorts are autobiographical in nature.
I struggled a bit connecting the vignettes to the short stories they were attached to, but reading up on it now afterwards, I see there's …
So there seems to be more than one collection of Hemingway shorts with this title. The one I read is really just the 1930-edition of In Our Time with "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" added.
Most of the short stories in this book is great, and somewhat what I expected from Hemingway, having only heard about his writing style. Most of the stories seem to somehow be about people wanting to find peace and/or relaxation in a difficult time, but there are stories that also don't fit this mold. Love, friendship, appriciation (and respect) for nature and death go through all of these, but all seen from a similar perspective - which makes sense, as I understand that many of these shorts are autobiographical in nature.
I struggled a bit connecting the vignettes to the short stories they were attached to, but reading up on it now afterwards, I see there's no clear connection between them.
