Volume 24, Number 8 · May 12, 1977
Desperate Character
By Wilfrid Sheed
How It Was
by Mary Welsh Hemingway
Knopf, 537 pp., $12.50
Papa: A Personal Memoir
by Gregory H. Hemingway MD, with a preface by Norman Mailer
Pocket Books, 119 pp., $1.75 (paper)
By Force of Will: The Life and Art of Ernest Hemingway
by Scott Donaldson
Viking, 367 pp., $13.95
The collapse of Hemingway's reputation was in the wind well before he died. His serious admirers had retreated by then to defending the early short stories and parts of The Sun Also Rises and snippets of A Farewell to Arms, and retreat usually leads to rout in these matters: the short stories could not hold out by themselves forever.
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