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SOME literary buffs remember the 1920s as the strange season of triumph for American literature. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein--all American expatriates--wrote tales that captivated not only American readers, but also audiences worldwide. In that decade, William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury, and Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times...
Some historians remember the 1920s as the decade of decadence, the age of Prohibition, when alcoholism became chic and terribly American. Flasks were all the rage, and organized crime controlled the liquor supply. And as Hemingway recalls, it was a time when "good writers were drinking writers...
Dardis' thesis is a fascinating one, but it is also one that he does not adequately support. The book convincingly details the drinking of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and O'Neill--there is little doubt in the readers' minds that all the authors are alcoholics...
...imperfect. But it had at its center an unforgettable father figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...clear that we can't talk about any serious perestroika. Why, for example, when the English writer Graham Greene moved to France, didn't anyone ask him whether or not he was planning to return to England? Who cares where Graham Greene lives -- in England or in France? And Hemingway, he lived quite peacefully in Cuba (can you imagine! on an island!) and didn't hurry back to his Great Homeland. But Russia, it seems, possesses particular advantages (borders, the KGB, internal passports, patriotism, perestroika, nostalgia) that for some reason must be satisfied. The whole world begs you: Since...