Winner Take Nothing

Name: Winner Take Nothing
Brand: Simon & Schuster Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ernest Hemingway
ISBN: 9780743578127

Author: Ernest Hemingway

Narrator: Stacy Keach

Abridged: 4 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Published: 04/01/2008

Categories: Fiction, Classic, Literary Fiction, Short Stories

Synopsis

Ernest Hemingway's Winner Take Nothing contains fourteen stories of varying length. Some of them have appeared in magazines but the majority have not been published before. The characters and backgrounds are widely varied. Some stories included are “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” a story about one man’s night in a café; “Homage to Switzerland” concerns various conversations at a Swiss railway-station restaurant; “The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio” is laid in the accident ward of a hospital in Western United States; and so on.

Ernest Hemingway made his literary start as a short-story writer. He has always excelled in that medium, and this volume reveals him at his best.

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. 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.

About Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach a star of stage, film, and television, won a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Nomination for his acclaimed portrayal of Hemingway in the definitive television epic. His films include American History X, Escape from LA, Keep Your Distance, and Birds of Passage. Other television features include Prison Break, and Titus. Mr. Keach read all three volumes of The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway for Simon & Schuster Audio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on December 21, 2019

I’ve read all of these stories multiple times, in various Hemingway collections and best stories ever collections, but I saw that this audio version was read by Stacy Keach and so I jumped at it. Keach has played in many dramatic adaptations of Hemingway novels and stories, and I looked forward to h......more

Goodreads review by Shane on June 29, 2009

I picked up a Hemingway book after nearly 30 years. And yet he was a formative influence on me as a writer. The book reinforced to me that "dialogue is everything", nobody wins, but everyone changes, punctuation needs to be used for rhythm, actions are harder to describe indirectly but are more powe......more

Goodreads review by alice on October 31, 2022

I am. Fake!......more

Goodreads review by Andy on March 30, 2014

This collection of short stories was first published in 1933, 4 years after he wrote Farewell to Arms. It includes one of my all time favorite stories, "A Clean Well Lighted Place" That story's dialogue between two waiters who are waiting for their last customer, a lonely, deaf old man, to leave is......more

Goodreads review by Brad on March 28, 2009

The Sea Change -- This story represents much that Hemingway is great at, distilled to its most fundamental. He makes us feel his characters in a heart beat. The Sea Change is three and a half pages, yet we know almost everything we need to know about Phil and the Girl instantly, and Hemingway makes......more