EAN: 9780063297494

BIG TWO-HEARTED RIVER - ERNEST HEMINGWAY GEBUNDEN

A gorgeous new centennial edition of Ernest Hemingway's landmark short story of returning
veteran Nick Adams's solo fishing trip in Michigan's rugged Upper Peninsula  illustrated with
specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory
foreword by John N. Maclean. The finest story of the outdoors in American literature. -Sports
Illustrated A century since its publication in the collection In Our Time  Big Two-Hearted
River has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe  and its
magnetic pull continues to draw readers  writers  and critics. The story is the best early
example of Ernest Hemingway's now-familiar writing style: short sentences  punchy nouns and
verbs  few adjectives and adverbs  and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate  difficult to
match. The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly
fishing can be literature. More than any of his stories  it depends on his 'iceberg theory' of
literature  the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid  the underwater portion
of the iceberg  adds to its power. Taken in context with his other work  it marks Hemingway's
passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it  novels and
stories poured out after it. -from the foreword by John N. Maclean

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