Published: 1952 (Charles Scribner’s Sons) Ernest Hemingway’s novella is a small story of epic proportions. Santiago, a grizzled and down-on-his-luck fisherman breaks a months long streak of futility by venturing out to the Cuban Gulf Stream to meet his fate, death or otherwise. Hemingway starts and ends his novel with Santiago and his young assistant/friendContinue reading “The Old Man and the Sea-Ernest Hemingway”
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A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway
Published: 1929 (Scribner) Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, reads like a long sip of whiskey that burns the throat while in the same turn calming the senses. Immersed in tales of the Italian Front of WWI, I read each short chapter staring out at a lake, fitting for a novel that is setContinue reading “A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway”
The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway
Published: 1926 (Scribner) Setting: Paris, Bayonne, Burguete, Pamplona, San Sebastian, Madrid Summary: A bunch of lost souls galivant around Paris and the Basque country, drinking themselves into the ground, only to pick themselves up after a tight four-hour nap to party the next day. Jake is a cool customer, he may have lost his abilityContinue reading “The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway”
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