A collection of vignettes and stories, including the Nick Adams tale โIndian Camp,โ from one of American literatureโs greatest twentieth-century writers.
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This volume of short fiction offers brief glimpses into Ernest Hemingwayโs life and mind, portraying the evolution of an artistโa writer of nonfiction testing the formโs limits, stretching his imagination, and experimenting with the โfibrous and athleticโ language that would propel his novels and make its mark on literary history (The New York Times).
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In Our Time features famous Nick Adams stories such as โIndian Camp,โ in which Nick gets a hard lesson in the reality of birth and death, โThe Doctor and the Doctorโs Wife,โ โThe Three-Day Blow,โ โThe Battler,โ and โBig Two-Hearted River,โ Parts I and II. There are scenes of war, bullfights, and brutality, but also moments of humor, albeit dark, and beauty. In Our Time captures a moment in a masterโs career, in which we are given a hint of what is to comeย .ย .ย .