Islands in the Stream

Ernest Hemingway

ISBN 10: 0002213443 / ISBN 13: 9780002213448

Published by Collins, 1970

About this Item

Collins, London, 1970. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FINE hardback copy in blue textured cloth with gilt titles to spine. "First published in 1970" by Collins (London). Illustrated end-papers (map of Cuba), slightly tanned throughout. Dusty top edge. Unclipped wrapper is clean and bright with a little top-edge wear and fading to spine (as usual).

Seller Inventory # 001091

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islands in the Stream
• Publisher: Collins
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002213443
• ISBN 13: 9780002213448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

This is the three part novel that Hemingway was writing at the time of his death.

Review

"Hemingway's most deeply autobiographical piece of work" (Irish Times)

"Hemingway’s style is a superb vehicle for revealing tenderness of feeling beneath descriptions of brutality" (Guardian)

"Many of the episodes contain the most exciting and effective writing Hemingway has ever done" (Saturday Review)

"This book contains some of the best of Hemingway's descriptions of nature: the waves breaking white and green on the reef off the coast of Cuba; the beauty of the morning on the deep water; the hermit crabs and land crabs and ghost crabs; a big barracuda stalking mullet; a heron flying with his white wings over the green water; the ibis and flamingoes and spoonbills, the last of these beautiful with the sharp rose of their color; the mosquitoes in clouds from the marshes; the water that curled and blew under the lash of the wind; the sculpture that the wind and sand had made of a piece of driftwood, gray and sanded and embedded in white, floury sand" (Edmund Wilson Saturday Review)

"Thomas Hudson, the painter in the book Islands in the Streamis Hemingway himself, attempting to come to terms with everything he loves - the clarity of a brushstroke, his three children, his ex-wives, his lovers, his whores, his friends, his cats, his rifle, his Booth's gin" (Newsweek)