Ernest Hemingway
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| Original Title: | The Garden of Eden |
| ISBN: | 0684804522 (ISBN13: 9780684804521) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | David Bourne, Catherine Bourne, Marita |
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A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).Mention About Books The Garden of Eden
| Title | : | The Garden of Eden |
| Author | : | Ernest Hemingway |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 248 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Scribner (first published May 1st 1986) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Literature |
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Ratings: 3.73 From 16463 Users | 1053 ReviewsJudgment About Books The Garden of Eden
This book is part reflection on the writing process, part portrait of a couple's descent into jealousy, and demise. Leading man David is successfully paring down his writing to its perfect, whole centre, while fracturing his already perfect marriage by adding another person to it.Great lines: "He had not known just how greatly he had been divided and separated because once he started to work he wrote from an inner core which could not be split nor even marked nor scratched. He knew about thisI find Hemingway offputtingly macho at the best of times, so I was surprised to learn hes the favorite author of a go-getting feminist type from my neighborhood book club; she put this forward as our April selection. I hadnt even heard of it before that point, probably because it was Hemingways second posthumous publication, not brought out until 1986 (25 years after his suicide). My main problems with it are that 1) it reads like an early draft of an early novel unpolished and with no proper
In this novel Hemingway plays the simple triangle of two bi-sexual women and a straight man for all it's worth. In the last published novel of Hemingway's the lean, muscular dialogue still rings clear and honest and true. The narrative is clean, compelling and minimalistic with details in the narrative that breed not only credibility but also trust in the verity of the narrator. I wondered if F. Scott Fitzgerald's many trials with Zelda, as Hemingway was a trusted confidant of Scott, had left
I read this book for a college course and was dreading it. I thought - here we go - another book with manly hunter Hemingway about war and bullfighting and all things manly. Ugh! Oh but it was not to be. This book turned me around on Hemingway and made me see the genius that he is. Sadly the book is published posthumously and it is questionable how much Hemingway is in this book - but when I read this I did not know there was a lot of controversy surrounding this and just enjoyed it for what it
Fucking loved this book so much. The Invisible Man (by H.G. Wells) threw me into a reading slump during the month of July. It was definitely not the worst reading slump ever but it wasn't pleasant either. I wasn't going anywhere with it so I decided to start The Star Rover (by Jack London). Again, nothing happened. I had no will to read any of those books. I'd rather watch television, listen to music or play Tomb Raider.Until, of course, The Garden of Eden showed up. I had no idea what
I cant recall whether I knew The Garden of Eden was unfinished prior to reading it, but I do remember that it didnt feel unfinished. Before reading this novel, I always thought of Hemingway in a way a lot people probably do, enjoying his prose but not seeing beyond his macho persona. It took me a while to take a closer look into this fascinating author and to learn more about him. I can say with certainly that The Garden of Eden changed the way I thought about Hemingway as a writer. This book
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