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In Our Time

Ernest Hemingway

Paperback | Pages: 156 pages

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Original Title:	In our Time
ISBN:	0684822761 (ISBN13: 9780684822768)
Edition Language:	English

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THIS COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES AND VIGNETTES MARKED ERNEST HEMINGWAY'S AMERICAN DEBUT AND MADE HIM FAMOUS

When In Our Time was published, it was praised by Ford Madox Ford, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald for its simple and precise use of language to convey a wide range of complex emotions, and it earned Hemingway a place beside Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein among the most promising American writers of that period. In Our Time contains several early Hemingway classics, including the famous Nick Adams stories "Indian Camp," "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "The Three Day Blow," and "The Battler," and introduces readers to the hallmarks of the Hemingway style: a lean, tough prose -- enlivened by an ear for the colloquial and an eye for the realistic that suggests, through the simplest of statements, a sense of moral value and a clarity of heart.
Now recognized as one of the most original short story collections in twentieth-century literature, In Our Time provides a key to Hemingway's later works.

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Title	:	In Our Time
Author	:	Ernest Hemingway
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 156 pages
Published	:	2003 by Scribner (first published 1924)
Categories	:	Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Literature

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Wow. I am surprised by how much I enjoyed this. My favorite stories are the two Big-hearted River stories at the end.Since I wrote that, I have been trying to understand why this book has such meaning for me and I still don't have words. Hemingway gets me, I think. Or, his getting himself down on paper, the way his characters feel and react to both extreme and mundane circumstances, is fundamental to humanity, so fundamental that it's difficult articulate and seeing any approach to such

As I am now part of an Ernest Hemingway Short Story book club, I will write reviews of the stories that strike my fancy and add them to the books from whence they came.Cat in the Rain -- This story represents one of my favourite aspects of Hemingway's work -- his simplicity. There is nothing, and I mean nothing, superfluous in Cat in the Rain. Every word is purposefully placed for its ability to invoke emotion or conjure an image. Reading Cat in the Rain can transport you to another time and

Hemingway's minimalist writing style is polarizing - this isn't news. His sparse sentences, staccato pacing and seemingly adjective free narratives aren't for everybody. But if you like this type of writing, this book of stories is for you.This is the first time in reading Hemingway that it dawned on my just how much like poetry his writing can be (I'm slow - my GR friends have probably written thesis on this). Here's an example, with line breaks at each period:He did not want any consequencesHe

I had been going along in my English major career under the assumption that Hemingway just wouldn't be my cup of tea. His reputation, from what I'd heard, was (and still is) one which championed the art of gritty narrative, the bare-bones of a structured plot, and fast-paced, uncensored dialogue. I had read a few of his short stories, and while I acknowledged their strength in minimalism and simplicity, I was never blown away by anything he wrote. Critical enthusiasm for his work was lost on me.

A short story collection that is kind of all over the place. I loved "Cat in the Rain," for what I, in my very modern view, saw as an indictment of the husband in the story, though I suspect less modern readers, and maybe Hemingway himself, saw as an indictment of the wife. On the other hand, "Indian Camp" is unsympathetic horror of a short story. Just a mess. The other stories ranged in between the two extremes for me.

Italo Calvino once called Hemingway's writing "violent tourism" and I laughed and dismissed Hemingway along with him.But it's funny how the right circumstances and the right set of an author's work will change your ideas on them completely.So if you read this book while it is pouring rain and everyone is asleep and you are polishing off a case of Budweiser it will give you a strange feeling of excitement like you want to get up and run around outside, but you remember it is raining.You are

In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure he would never dieHemingway, Indian CampDear Jesus, please get me out. Christ, please, please, please, Christ. If you only keep me from being killed I'll do anything you say. I believe in you and I'll tell everybody in the world that you are the only thing that matters. Please, please, dear Jesus' The shelling moved further up the line. We went to work on the trench and in the morning the