The Torrents of Spring
A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race

Hemingway wrote this book in ten days in order to opt out of a dissatisfying contract and to sign with Scribner at the urging of F. Scott Fitzgerald (who makes a hilarious appearance in the book). Some have dismissed it as a satirical skewering of the the styles of the modern realists such as Anders......more

Found my mind drifting off while reading. Hemingway always hinted in the authors note that something interesting would happen next, but it didn’t feel very exciting to me.......more

The torture of being a rising American literary star in the tumultuous 1920’s must have been too much for poor young Ernest Hemingway. I can think of no other reason why an author of Hemingway’s enormous talent would have written and published the singularly curious, if entertaining, little book tha......more

This is Hemingway publicly mocking his friend and mentor, Sherwood Anderson. It is a harsh thing to insult the person to which you owe your first publishing deal, as well as much of your writing style, but if you have read much of the biographical material on Hemingway, you will know that he was a h......more

What a bizarre disjointed story. Albeit with satire of the literary heroes of that era. There is humor. This was Hemingway’s second book and is no masterpiece but did keep my attention. I am not sure what to make of it. Indians, chinook’s, pump factories, a mysterious bird that miraculously survives......more