Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987
Pressure Under Grace
By Frederick C. Crews
Hemingway
by Kenneth S. Lynn
Simon and Schuster, 702 pp., $24.95
Kenneth S. Lynn's Hemingway is hardly a book that its subject would have enjoyed reading. If the touchy and pugnacious bruiser were still among us, Lynn would surely want to keep a bodyguard at his side for the next several years. Nevertheless, he has written not only one of the most brilliant and provocative literary biographies in recent memory, but also the study that Hemingway most urgently needs at this point in his critical fortunes.
Review, 7342 words
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