5/13/2023 0 Comments Men without women hemingway![]() ![]() If you're looking for where to start in the Hemingway canon, know that you can't really go wrong. (For a man who wrote that he gets over writer's block by sitting down and writing the truest sentence that you know," this isn't altogether surprising.) ![]() The opening line of the book that helped him win the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, " The Old Man and the Sea," reads as a status report: "He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish." Nicknamed the "iceberg theory" by Hemingway, much of his novels' meatiness (their nuances, their themes) lies looming beneath the surface. ![]() When you think of Ernest Hemingway - journalist, novelist, bullfighting aficionado - you probably think of the lean, understated prose that defines many American classics. ![]()
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