Islands in the Stream

Hemingway, Ernest

ISBN 10: 0684837870 / ISBN 13: 9780684837871

Published by Collins, 1997

About this Item

First Edition. Collins, 1970. Scarce pre-publication sampler. This includes a one-page introduction about the work, an extract from the novel and Early Clues to Islands in the Stream an extraction from Ernest Hemingway by Carlos Baker. White wrappers with cover drawing of the author. Book is fine, with miniscule stain on front cover.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Islands in the Stream
• Publisher: Collins
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684837870
• ISBN 13: 9780684837871
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis

A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.

First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.

About the Author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.