A collection of vignettes and stories, including the Nick Adams tale
“Indian Camp,” from one of American literature’s greatest
twentieth-century writers. This volume of short fiction offers
brief glimpses into Ernest Hemingway’s life and mind, portraying the
evolution of an artist—a writer of nonfiction testing the form’s
limits, stretching his imagination, and experimenting with the
“fibrous and athletic” language that would propel his novels and
make its mark on literary history (The New York Times). In Our Time
features famous Nick Adams stories such as “Indian Camp,” in which
Nick gets a hard lesson in the reality of birth and death, “The
Doctor and the Doctor’s Wife,” “The Three-Day Blow,” “The
Battler,” and “Big Two-Hearted River,” Parts I and II. There are
scenes of war, bullfights, and brutality, but also moments of humor,
albeit dark, and beauty. In Our Time captures a moment in a master’s
career, in which we are given a hint of what is to come . . .
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ISBN
9781504061384
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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