Re: RARA-AVIS: To Have and Have Not

From: Paul Miller ( phm@midsouth.rr.com)
Date: 14 Mar 2002

For the record, my belief is that his best novel is "A Farewell to Arms." The worst offender is "Islands in the Stream," but that may be unfair because Hemmingway didn't get a chance to work with the editor before it was published. Hemmingway was a master of shorter fiction--the Nick Adams stories and "Old Man and the Sea" being prime examples.

Ray.........................................................................
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Farewell to Arms has some tremendous writing. The dialogue btween Henry and Catherine is godawful however. One Nick Adams story called Big two Hearted River is one of his best stories IMHO.

Paul

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