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This book is about the travels of a group of young British in the 1920 with the first half of the book in Paris and the second half in Spain, where they go fishing and see a bull fight in Pamplona. This book is based on Hemingway's own life in the mid 1920 where he lived both in Prais then in Spain. As first rule of writing is to write what you know.
The way he writes his prose is different than any other author I have seen before. The sentences are short in a way I would never think of or would ...more
The way he writes his prose is different than any other author I have seen before. The sentences are short in a way I would never think of or would ...more
Full disclosure: I love Ernest Hemingway! I don’t know why. My Late mother didn’t care for him. She enjoyed F. Scot Fitzgerald. I don’t so much. Both men wrote sparingly under Gertrude Stein’s tutelage. Both men were part of the same expatriate crowd living in Paris after the conclusion of WW I. Hemingway and Fitzgerald both lived “the lost generation” lifestyle. Fitzgerald drowned in it; Hemingway left and grew as an important literary author until he could no longer write shortly before his su
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