Not for the faintly hearted, not for those who aim to get the easy message out or a delicious storyline. A restaurant, a bar, a place to eat, a couple of towns, jobs, Prohibition and reflection upon the craft of writing. The 3/5 review does not indicate the quality of the book which I think is of the highest esteems, but rather represents a disappointment, an indication on my side. To understand Torrents of Spring, I must go back in time, read Anderson and question the "discussing arts in Paris side".

One gets the most out of this by reading the comments he lays masterfully between the pages, commenting on Fitzgerald interrupting his writing session and spending a little too much time by the fireplace. Attention to the "little too much time". The book is a window in its time period, not romanticizing the artistic movement of the modernist, but rather questioning their farts and presumed "intellectual behavior". To gossip, to be in a cafe, to spend time pondering. Hemingway wanted to write, and why did they disturb him?

Nevertheless, it was a great read after Men without Women.