The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907–1922
Cambridge University Press, $54.95 hb, 431 pp
Letters
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907–1922 by Sandra Spanier and Robert W. Trogdon
by James McNamara •
There is an entertaining moment in Woody Allen’s new film when the protagonist, Gil Pender, meets young Ernest in a bar. ‘You liked my book?’ Hemingway asks. ‘Liked? I loved all your work!’ gushes the time-travelling Pender. Hemingway looks chuffed and then proclaims his aesthetic.
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