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Chargement... Iles à la dérive (1970)par Ernest Hemingway
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.   ) mmodine | Mar 20, 2024 |  Islands in the Stream contains three distinct sections, setting out three periods in Tom Hudson's life. Read it to experience Hemingway's fine descriptive writing, and his skills in sharing both Hudson's contemporaneous thoughts as well as his personal reflections on the various chapters of his life, (  ) maryelisa | Jan 16, 2024 | stpetr | Mar 1, 2022 | David-Block | Nov 16, 2020 | ) ChristopherSwann | May 15, 2020 |
". . . a complete, well-rounded novel, a contender with his very best. It has his characteristic blend of strong-running narrative and reflective mememto mori and it is 100-proof Old Ernest, most of it."  This book does not make it. I wanted this book to make it. I have been pulling for Hemingway to hit one out of the lot for a long time now. I wanted another novel like The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, or To Have and Have Not... So here, in Islands in the Stream, is his last at bat. From beyond the grave. What a chance for drama! But Mr. Hemingway took a called third strike, lying down... All in all, Hemingway knows his men and his war and his food and his drinks and the wind and the sea and the birds, and how to boat, and he knows his crabs and his wild boars and his dogs and his insects, and he knows his death is coming. He’s weak on his women but most of us are, and his conversations aren’t quite real; they are Hemingway conversations, but once you realize this you can accept them. And there’s free knowledge in the book on all sorts of little things besides making good drinks. Although I don’t care too much for his peanut butter with raw onion sandwiches... No, the book doesn’t make it. Few do. I’d say buy it just to know which way things went. They went that way. And he’s gone now. Appartient à la série éditorialeFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansDistinctions
First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing -- from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last novella (The Old Man and the Sea) -- this compelling novel contains both the warmth of recollection that inspired A Moveable Feast and a rare glimpse of Hemingway's rich and relaxed sense of humor, which enlivens scene after scene. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini, where his loneliness is broken by the vacation visit of his three young sons, to his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. The greater part of the story takes place in a Havana bar, where a wildly diverse cast of characters -- including an aging prostitute who stands out as one of Hemingway's most vivid creations -- engages in incomparably rich dialogue. A brilliant portrait of the inner life of a complex and endlessly intriguing man, Islands in the Stream is Hemingway at his mature best. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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