The Garden of Eden - Softcover

Hemingway, Ernest [preface By Charles Scribner Jr] [cover Painting By Juan Gris, Design By Lee Wade]

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0684188716 ISBN 13: 9780684188713

Publisher: Collier Books / Macmillan Publishing Company [1987], 1987

Synopsis

A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).

About this title

From the Publisher:

8 1-hour cassettes

About the Author:

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, Ernest Hemingway served in the Red Cross during World War I as an ambulance driver and was severely wounded in Italy. He moved to Paris in 1921, devoted himself to writing fiction, and soon became part of the expatriate community, along with Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford. He revolutionized American writing with his short, declarative sentences and terse prose. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, and his classic novella THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collier Books / Macmillan Publishing Company [1987]
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0684188716
• ISBN 13: 9780684188713
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 247