THE GARDEN OF EDEN BY EARNEST HEMINGWAY: A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. It is a highly readable story,if not possibly the book he envisioned. As published it is composed of 30 short chapters running to about 70,000 words. A publisher's note advises that ''some cuts'' have been made in the manuscript, but …
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… bit, actually, of Robert Cohn, whom Jake Barnes despised for suffering quietly the belittling remarks of women in public.Perhaps Hemingway is learning to dispense his judgments more thoughtfully. REFERENCES: 1) Clifford, Stephen P., and Reading Hemingway: The Facts in the Fictions. (Book reviews). Vol. 24, College Literature, 06-01-1997, pp 172(11). 2) Richardson, Miles, Place, Narrative, and the Writing Self: The Poetics of Being in the Garden of Eden. Vol. 35, The Southern Review, 04-01-1999, pp 330.