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Not one of my favorite Hemingway novels. A Farewell to Arms is loosely based on Ernest Hemingway's experiences as an ambulance driver in Italy. He was also wounded and fell for the nurse who cared for him, though unlike Henry, Hemingway didn't marry his nurse.
The love story seemed slightly stilted, unlike The Sun Also Rises. But we readers do get a hint of the prose style that made Hemingway a master story teller. ...more
The love story seemed slightly stilted, unlike The Sun Also Rises. But we readers do get a hint of the prose style that made Hemingway a master story teller. ...more
Not without redeeming moments, but on the whole it's too mundane, too clinical, too aggressively objective without any psychological realism to soften it. He's clearly a master of detail, but despite the stark description and sometimes painful intimacy of the conversations, the characters remain wooden constructs. They are undeveloped, their motivations are opaque, and when they voice emotion they are hard to believe. The unrelenting focus on the sensations of eating and drinking may be intended
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Dec 19, 2007
Josephine (biblioseph)
marked it as tbr-maybe
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Alia
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