Islands in the Stream: A Novel

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0002213443 / ISBN 13: 9780002213448

Published by Collins, London, UK, 1970

About this Item

First edition, first printing. 398pp. Blue textured cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Maps on pale blue endpapers. 8vo. Cloth a little rubbed and rounded on extreme corners and spine tips. Shadows on text block edges with small mark on fore edge. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original glossy dust wrapper, bumped on extreme edges, a little shelf worn, not price clipped. Seller Inventory # 031841

Bibliographic Details

Title: Islands in the Stream: A Novel

Publisher: Collins, London, UK

Publication Date: 1970

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Good

Edition: 1st Edition.

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)