Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemingway
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Islands in the Stream

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Bruce Greenwood

Unabridged: 13 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/01/2006


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 Ernest Hemingway

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. 


Reviews

Goodreads review by bup on February 13, 2008

The book is good. It's good but it's sad. It's a good, sad book about a good, sad man, and that's what Hemingway intended. He knew that writing a good book is a fine thing, because people will enjoy reading it. I tell myself that he's right: reading a good book is a good thing. You can be glad that t......more

Goodreads review by Mary on August 24, 2008

Oh how I wish Hemingway had lived to revise and compile this book. Published posthumously and with only minor attention given to copy editing by Papa's publisher and last wife, the book limns its main character in three parts: as an artist living in the Gulf before WWII, as a grief-stricken u-boat h......more

Goodreads review by Malia on September 14, 2019

I picked this book up on a whim, and I'm so glad I did! What a strange, melancholy, compelling story! It was published posthumously and not edited by Hemingway, which makes me wonder what it might have been like if he'd finished it himself, but as it is, I liked it a lot. It might be one of my favor......more

Goodreads review by Steve on August 23, 2016

The Most Interesting Man in the World: The Novel(s). I removed Islands in the Stream from my “currently reading” shelf because I wasn’t sure I would ever finish it. The first part, “Bimini,” is the best part of the novel, and could probably have stood alone as a short novel. It tells the story of Th......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on August 03, 2023

"Being against evil doesn't make you good ...when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting" A manly story about a very manly man, doing the things manly men do: hunting, fishing, fist fighting, a few quick trips to the local brothel, then off to capture nazi......more