In Our Time
 

In Our Time

by Ernest Hemingway

No writer has been more efficiently overshadowed by his imitators than Ernest Hemingway. From the moment he unleashed his stripped-down, declarative sentences on the world, he began breeding entire generations of miniature Hemingways, who latched on to his subtractive style without ever wondering what he'd removed, or why. And his tendency to lapse into self-parody during the latter... (read more)

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Tinky
  • Rated 5 stars

Hemingway’s stunning debut. A short story collection that reads like a novel, “In Our Time” contrasts flashing fragments of monologue and imagery depicting a reeling post-WWI Europe with the quiet struggle of a shell-shocked generation of veterans trying to reclaim some sort of innocence. It’s part “The Waste Land”, part the Associated Press.

It’s vital, when reading “In Our Time,” to understand how new this book was. Did anybody write like this before Hemingway appeared on the...

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Jason_C
  • Rated 1 stars

I am not for the short stories that have nothing to do with each other.

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  • Rated 4 stars
 

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  • my_rose0000

    my_rose0000 said:

    hey can u provide me a link to the ecopy of this book " in our time"

    posted Sunday, September 16 2007
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