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...Ernest Hemingway, Baker...
...talent is even more notable than his name. With only a few New Yorker stories and poems as warmups, L. (Larry) Woiwode (pronounced Why-v/ood-ee) has staged the best three-way confrontation between a young man, life and the Michigan woods since Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. If a better first novel than this one appears in 1969, it will be a remarkable year...
...Ernest Hemingway, Baker...
...father gloried in being a Great White Hunter; for his son, hunting was a far more serious matter. He arrived in Africa 17 years ago and earned a reputation as one of the top professional hunters in Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro area. But Ernest's son Patrick Hemingway, 40, eight years ago put away his rifle for a more rewarding job-protecting and preserving Africa's dwindling wildlife. Now Patrick is teaching conservation to 63 black African students currently enrolled at the College of African Wildlife Management at Mweka, in northern Tanzania. "I like the work...
Like a sort of unheroic Hemingway, Fielding has created a charmed circle and a cult. It involves rituals about food, drink and living in which everything has to be just so. It divides the world into good guys and bad?or, as Fielding has it, "givers" and "takers." His friends must all be givers?although as soon as they become his friends, they must learn to take as well, since he loves to shower them with thoughtful gifts: a favorite delicacy, a dozen fine Majorcan handkerchiefs embroidered with their signatures, a monogrammed cigarette lighter. For a grown...