The Torrents of Spring: A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684129574 ISBN 13: 9780684129570

Synopsis

An early gem from the greatest American writer of the twentieth century
First published in 1926, The Torrents of Spring is a hilarious parody of the Chicago school of literature. Poking fun at that "great race" of writers, it depicts a vogue that Hemingway himself refused to follow. In style and substance, The Torrents of Spring is a burlesque of Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter, but in the course of the narrative, other literary tendencies associated with American and British writers akin to Anderson -- such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and John Dos Passos -- come in for satirical comment. A highly entertaining story, The Torrents of Spring offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller and stylist.

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Review

"Extraordinary tour de force ... For perhaps the first time in our literature, a kind of anti-Western Western" (Leslie A. Fiedler)

"Hemingway gave the century a way of making literary art that dealt with the remarkable violence of our time. He listened and watched and invented the language - using the power, the terror, of silences - with which we could name ourselves" (New York Times Book Review)

Book Description

Hemingway's first novel, a wonderful satirical take on the world of writers, by the Nobel Prize-winning author of A Farewell To Arms.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684129574
• ISBN 13: 9780684129570
• Binding: Paperback