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4 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“For instance, Francis McCumber runs from the lion in The Short Happy Life of Francis McCumber, and then is given a second chance to stand firm…”
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“If you take A Moveable Feast, which is published in 1964, Mary puts it together, his fourth wife. It's probably the most beloved book he ever wrote.”
Why: It is highlighted as his most beloved memoir.
A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“Then we get, in 1986, The Garden of Eden, a very controversial book, but it changed Hemingway's studies.”
Why: It changed Hemingway studies by highlighting themes of vulnerability and the pathos of gender.
The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“Our topic for today is Hemingway's novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. David, welcome to EconTalk.”
Why: It is praised as a generous, affirmative, and full-hearted novel exploring change, empathy, and the experience of time.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
Named without an opinion attached.
“I just read a biography of Tim O'Brien, the author of The Things They Carried, who is probably that story, The Things They Carried, is the most anthologized, reprinted story…”
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“Well, it's a phrase that Hemingway deployed. I don't think he used it in one of his novels. I think it might have been in Death in the Afternoon, the bullfighting book.”
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“Then in 1970, we get Islands in the Stream, which is a much underrated, again, war novel set in Yemeni and Cuba.”
Islands in the Stream by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
“And by the mid-30s, with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's already shifting away from that clipped style…”
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway
Guest on EconTalkHemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)