Winner Take Nothing - Couverture souple

Hemingway, Ernest

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 002051820X ISBN 13 : 9780020518204

Editeur : Prentice Hall & IBD, 1987

Synopsis

Book by Hemingway Ernest

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

Written when Hemingway was at the height of his creative powers, the stories in Winner Take Nothing glow with the mark of his unique talent.

The characters, the dialogue, the settings, the remarkable insight could have come only from Hemingway's imagination. As an introduction to his work, or as an overview of the themes he developed at greater length in his novels, it is a stunningly successful collection.

Hunters, wives, old men of wisdom, waiters, fighters, women loved, women lost: they are all here, living on the raw edge, making love, facing the inevitable reality of death.

'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

Biographie de l'auteur :

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield – this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war – in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Date d'édition: 1987
• ISBN 10: 002051820X
• ISBN 13: 9780020518204
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 162