Hemingway: The 1930s

In the years between <em>A Farewell to Arms</em> and <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls</em>, Ernest Hemingway matured as a writer against the backdrop of Cuban revolutions, African game trails, Key West impoverishment, and the Spanish Civil War. He experimented in fiction and nonfiction, pushing his limits as a writer, in such works as <em>Death in the Afternoon</em>, <em>Green Hills of Africa</em>, and <em>To Have and Have Not</em>. In this "masterpiece in the making," Reynolds brings us so close to Hemingway that "you can all but smell Hemingways whisky breath coming off the pages" (<em>Library Journal</em>).