Big TwoHearted River, Ernest Hemingway
Big TwoHearted River, Ernest Hemingway
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Big Two-Hearted River
The Centennial Edition

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Kyle Soller

Unabridged: 1 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/09/2023


Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway’s landmark short story of a veteran’s solo fishing trip in Michigan’s rugged Upper Peninsula, featuring a revelatory foreword by John N. Maclean.“A century since its publication in the collection In Our Time, “Big Two-Hearted River” has helped shape language and literature in America and across the globe, and its magnetic pull continues to draw readers, writers, and critics. The story is the best early example of Ernest Hemingway’s now-familiar writing style: short sentences, punchy nouns and verbs, few adjectives and adverbs, and a seductive cadence. Easy to imitate, difficult to match. The subject matter of the story has inspired generations of writers to believe that fly fishing can be literature. More than any of his stories, it depends on his ‘iceberg theory’ of literature, the notion that leaving essential parts of a story unsaid, the underwater portion of the iceberg, adds to its power. Taken in context with his other work, it marks Hemingway’s passage from boyish writer to accomplished author: nothing big came before it, novels and stories poured out after it.” —from the foreword by John N. Maclean

About Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His novels include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Born in Oak Park, Illinois, in 1899, he died in Ketchum, Idaho, on July 2, 1961.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

I appreciate nature and how Hemingway honors it in this short story: how nature can heal, how it can bring you back to your core, and how it can simplify life and remind you of what matters. You could read this story as a tale of post traumatic stress disorder, of a man soothing himself in the woods......more

Goodreads review by Sierra

When reading this story I felt as though I was there with Nick; experiencing the same things he experienced, doing as he did. I found myself drawn into the story, captured by the ordinary acts done within the text. I personally love the great outdoors, so reading about how Nick set up his camp and c......more

My favorite work of fiction ever written. A masterpiece of subtlety and outdoors imagery, a story of how the wilderness is a healing salve. Like Hemingway’s favorite protagonist, his Nick Adams, I am also a military veteran who has found a peace and solace in the great outdoors. There is so much in......more