The Torrents of Spring
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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. Spring 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. Their 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 'Extraordinary tour de force... For perhaps the first time in our literature, a kind of anti-Western Western' Leslie A. Fiedler
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A rather hastily written book by Hemingway. It's different than ususal Hemingway books. The story is light-hearted and feels incomplete. Overall, a quick read and a forgettable one too. Maybe I didn't get the context in which it was written. Didn't quite enjoy it.
Interesting to read one of his earlier works. It reads different. I did not like the breaks where he addresses the reader. Offensive to a culture but then again one can say he a victim of his time. Also unrelated- but I am absolutely torn by the brutal fate he gave the character Diana. She did not need any more than what she already suffered.
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