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Chris Pereira
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Short Story Tour de Force
In brief, this is one of the best short story collections of all time. It helps if you know you like Hemingway’s ‘short and muscular� prose style, but even if you’re new to Hemingway or don’t care for his novels, you can love this collection. Split fairly evenly between his Michigan tales (Ray Bradbury’s favorites of the bunch) and those set in Europe, there are a number of heavy hitters, most of which are evocative of Hem’s ‘iceberg� theory of scraping the surface of de ...more
In brief, this is one of the best short story collections of all time. It helps if you know you like Hemingway’s ‘short and muscular� prose style, but even if you’re new to Hemingway or don’t care for his novels, you can love this collection. Split fairly evenly between his Michigan tales (Ray Bradbury’s favorites of the bunch) and those set in Europe, there are a number of heavy hitters, most of which are evocative of Hem’s ‘iceberg� theory of scraping the surface of de ...more
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Chris Pereira
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