The Torrents Of Spring By Ernest Hemingway
RE-ISSUED WITH A FANTASTIC NEW LOOK TO MATCH THE HEMINGWAY TITLES ALREADY REPACKAGED IN ARROW SUBTITLED A ROMANTIC NOVEL IN HONOUR OF THE PASSING OF A GREAT RACE , THE TORRENTS OF SPRING - HEMINGWAY S SECOND PUBLISHED WORK - WONDERFULLY PARODIES THE THEMES AND STYLES OF THE GREAT RACE OF WRITERS OF HIS GENERATION.NNSPRING IS COMING TO THE SMALL TOWNS OF MICHIGAN, BUT THE SNOW STILL COVERS THE LAND WHEN SCRIPPS O NEIL SETS OF FOR CHICAGO, DECIDES TO STOP A WHILE IN PETOSKEY, AND MEETS UP WITH YOGI JOHNSON.NNTHEIR BIZARRE STORIES ARE A BRILLIANT SATIRE ON CONVENTIONAL FICTION. THE CHARACTERS THEY MEET ARE ABSURD AND YET STRANGELY FAMILIAR. SHORT, FAST-PACED, FUNNY, THE TORRENTS OF SPRING THROWS LIGHT ON HEMINGWAY S LATER WORK - AND IS A DELIGHT TO READ.
About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb. In 1917, Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendships with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style. Hemingways first two published works were Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, that established his name more widely. His international reputation was firmly secured by his next three books; Fiesta, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing and his writing reflected this. He visited Spain during the Civil War and described his experiences in the bestseller, For Whom the Bell Tolls. His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the bel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.