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FLASHMAN AND THE DRAGON, George MacDonald Fraser THE GARDEN OF EDEN, Ernest Hemingway THE INHUMAN CONDITION, Clive Barker THE LAST BLOSSOM ON THE PLUM TREE, Brooke Astor MONKEYS, Susan Minot "Q" CLEARANCE, Peter Benchley...
...GARDEN OF EDEN, Hemingway...
...long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater to the tough-guy fantasies of the literati. Albert Camus, whose spare existential novels were influenced by U.S. detective fiction, looked like Humphrey Bogart portraying Sam Spade. Hemingway followed in the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ring Lardner. But it is hard to read such terse narratives as The Killers and To Have and Have Not without imagining gumshoe tracks leading back to Black Mask magazine...
...thing in common: tuberculosis, and the refuge in upstate New York offered the promise of recovery. Sometimes it was illusory. Bartok flourished at Saranac but later succumbed to the disease; the Murphys' adolescent son died there shortly after working on an etching of his visitor, Ernest Hemingway. But many others returned to life on the outside, often as uneasily as Percy's protagonist in The Moviegoer, "no more able to be in the world than Banquo's ghost." Like the disease it fought, Saranac was eventually undone by antibiotics. But for some 70 years, it was a rare arena that...
...willingness to follow Catherine to the hairdresser, The Garden of Eden is not the work of a secret quiche eater. Catherine's urges do not come naturally to David. His women are part of the external world, like the baking Mediterranean sun and the bracing sea. As always in Hemingway, those externals are observed with a meticulous objectivity that conveys loneliness. There are also many self-conscious passages on the writer's solitary struggle. For example: "It is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply...