Volume 33, Number 10 · June 12, 1986
A Farewell to Hemingstein
By Wilfrid Sheed
The Garden of Eden
by Ernest Hemingway
Scribner's, 247 pp., $18.95
Dateline: Toronto/The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920–1924
by Ernest Hemingway, edited by William White
Scribner's, 478 pp., $19.95
Hemingway: A Biography
by Jeffrey Meyers
Harper and Row, 644 pp., $27.50
Along With Youth: Hemingway, The Early Years
by Peter Griffin
Oxford University Press, 258 pp., $17.95
The Young Hemingway
by Michael Reynolds
Basil Blackwell, 291 pp., $19.95
Ernest Hemingway and His World
by Anthony Burgess
Scribner's, 128 pp., $10.95 (paper)
Hemingway by now is like some old man who's been sitting at the end of the bar for years. A fellow comes in and says, 'Hey, that guy seems awfully tough; do you think he's just showing off?' Yes, both. 'I mean people who brag that much often turn out to be sissies, right?' To which one can only say, 'You must be a stranger around here.'
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