In a message dated 3/16/02 12:10:37 PM,
Robison_M@crane.navy.mil writes:
<< i think the story goes that hemingway read the
book
over a hundred times before releasing it to the
publisher. >>
It is my kind of stuff, lean, and
clean. Microsurgery writing. The most amazing thing to me
about the book is the way in which the pacing never flags in
what is basically a one character, one venue story.
Jim
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