Islands in the stream : a novel

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0002213443 / ISBN 13: 9780002213448

Published by London: Collins, 1970

About this Item

Hemingway, Ernest. Islands in the stream : a novel. First UK edition. London: Collins, 1970. Hardback, VG, in GOOD, unclipped dustjacket, sunned to spine with some rubbing along the rear spine edge. Textured blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Endpapers illustrated with maps. Small ownership signature to ffep. 398pp. Light foxing spots to edges of the page block. Contents clean and bright. Islands in the Stream (1970) is the first of the posthumously published novels of Ernest Hemingway. The book was originally intended to revive Hemingway's reputation after the negative reviews of Across the River and Into the Trees. He began writing it in 1950 and advanced greatly through 1951. The work, rough but seemingly finished, was found by Mary Hemingway among 332 works Hemingway left behind at his death. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islands in the stream : a novel
• Publisher: London: Collins
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0002213443
• ISBN 13: 9780002213448
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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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)