A gorgeous new Centennial Edition of Ernest Hemingway\'s landmark short story of a veteran\'s solo fishing trip in Michigan\'s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N.
Maclean. --from the foreword by John N.
Taken in context with his other work, it marks Hemingway\'s passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it, novels and stories poured out after it.
More than any of his stories, it depends on his \'iceberg theory\' of literature, the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid, the underwater portion of the iceberg, adds to its power.
The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly fishing can be literature.
Easy to imitate, difficult to match.
The story is the best early example of Ernest Hemingway\'s now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence.
A century since its publication in the collection In Our Time , Big Two-Hearted River has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe, and its magnetic pull continues to draw readers, writers, and critics.
Maclean.
A gorgeous new Centennial Edition of Ernest Hemingway\'s landmark short story of a veteran\'s solo fishing trip in Michigan\'s rugged Upper Peninsula, illustrated with specially commissioned artwork by master engraver Chris Wormell and featuring a revelatory foreword by John N
