Islands in the Stream

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0099586630 / ISBN 13: 9780099586630

Editore: Arrow, 2013

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Islands in the Stream
• Editore: Arrow
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0099586630
• ISBN 13: 9780099586630
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: quinta edizione o successive
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 320 grammi

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Riassunto

L'ultimo romanzo importante di Hemingway, ambientato nelle isole della Corrente del Golfo, cattura le lotte delle relazioni personali adulte nel suo stile inconfondibile e consumato. Questo è l'ultimo libro che Hemingway scrisse prima di morire, la storia di Thomas Hudson, un artista e avventuriero. Vivendo una vita da scapolo su un'isola della Corrente del Golfo durante gli anni Trenta, l'esistenza di Hudson è dettata dalle onde e dalle maree. Ma quando i suoi figli vengono a fargli visita, Hudson deve confrontarsi con il ruolo di padre e le richieste insolite della famiglia. Un'opera tarda di uno dei più grandi scrittori americani.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Hemingway's 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 Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.