Islands In The Stream Synopsis
Islands in the Stream tells the story of Thomas Hudson as he moves through different stages of his life. The first posthumously published book by Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream was intended to revive the author's reputation following negative reviews of Across the River and into the Trees. It was discovered by Hemingway's widow, Mary, among 332 different works left unfinished at his death and, as with Hemingway's previous works, draws heavily on his personal relationships and experiences during the Second World War. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781443414791 |
| Publication date: |
8th May 2012 |
| Author: |
Ernest Hemingway |
| Publisher: |
HarperCollins Canada |
| Format: |
Ebook (Epub) |
| Primary Genre |
General Fiction
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Ernest Hemingway Press Reviews
Thomas Hudson, the painter in the book Islands in the Streamis Hemingway himself, attempting to come to terms with everything he loves - the clarity of a brushstroke, his three children, his ex-wives, his lovers, his whores, his friends, his cats, his rifle, his Booth's gin - Newsweek
This book contains some of the best of Hemingway's descriptions of nature: the waves breaking white and green on the reef off the coast of Cuba; the beauty of the morning on the deep water; the hermit crabs and land crabs and ghost crabs; a big barracuda stalking mullet; a heron flying with his white wings over the green water; the ibis and flamingoes and spoonbills, the last of these beautiful with the sharp rose of their color; the mosquitoes in clouds from the marshes; the water that curled and blew under the lash of the wind; the sculpture that the wind and sand had made of a piece of driftwood, gray and sanded and embedded in white, floury sand -- Edmund Wilson - Saturday Review
Many of the episodes contain the most exciting and effective writing Hemingway has ever done - Saturday Review
Hemingway's style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality - Guardian
Hemingway's most deeply autobiographical piece of work - Irish Times
About Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
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