A LATER CLASSIC FROM AMERICA'S PREMIER FICTION WRITER
First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death,
this is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like
Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, "Islands in the Stream"
follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a
painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his
antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II.
Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose
than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts
he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway
wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough,
terse prose. Publication of "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Farewell to
Arms" immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the
greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the
expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and
World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to
international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and
big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and
women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both
physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War,
portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel "For Whom the Bell
Tolls," and he subsequently covered World War II. His classic
novella "The Old Man and the Sea" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
He died in 1961.
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