In Our Time
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Ernest Hemingway
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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Author
Ernest Hemingway
Pages
30
Publisher
Open Road Media
Published Date
2020-04-07
ISBN
1504061381 9781504061384
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"While this short story collection is my least favourite Hemingway book so far, there are a couple of very good stories and plenty of merits for those who wish to round out their understanding of his works. As it was written earlier than his best books, it is perhaps understandable that this one is far less powerful, although "The Sun Also Rises" is my favourite and it was written only a year later. The collection is a great insight into Hemingway's modernist omission tactic: his heroes are built by absences in others and their flaws are presented without obvious moral judgments. Themes of masculinity, action, courage, disillusionment, and loss of innocence are sometimes wrestled with, but at the very least presented for the reader to engage. Standout stories for me were "The Doctor and The Doctor's Wife", "The End of Something", "Soldier's Home", and "My Old Man". While the collection doesn't achieve the power of "The Sun Also Rises", there are moments in these stories where Hemingway captures poignant moments of life in a way that reflects the mastery of his best works."
Jacob Longini