Volume 46, Number 16 · October 21, 1999
The Best He Could Do
By Thomas Flanagan
True at First Light
by Ernest Hemingway, edited with an introduction by Patrick Hemingway
Scribner, 319 pp., $26.00
Hemingway: The Final Years
by Michael Reynolds
Norton, 416 pp., $30.00
Hemingway and His Conspirators: Hollywood, Scribners, and the Making of American Celebrity Culture
by Leonard J. Leff
Rowman and Littlefield, 255 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels
by Rose Marie Burwell
Cambridge University Press, 250 pp., $19.95 (paper)
The conversation held in the bush country of Kenya between Ernest Hemingway and a stranded Austrian named Kandisky is the only well-remembered part of Green Hills of Africa. It is otherwise given over to the hunting of various beasts, especially the fleet though luckless kudu, a sport for which the reader comes to share Kandisky's puzzled distaste.
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