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...BULK of this book, however, is about the LNS, and Mungo tells his story with talent and gusto. Unlike Jerry Rubin, he can write, and some of his passages transcend the steady stream of daily escapades. He talks with warmth about the people: Marshall Bloom, the co-founder of LNS who single-handedly ran the anarchic organization, and whose singularly dynamic personality eventually led to the split in the LNS; Little Stevie Wonder, a 16-year-old photographer-hanger-on who ended up dead in a car accident, strung up on heroin; Bala, Bala, another co-founder and jack...
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM by Ernest Hemingway. 466 pages. Scribners...
...largely as a result, won a Nobel Prize. But he never released the Thomas Hudson narratives. Now they have been made public by Scribners and Mary Hemingway, admittedly only after long deliberation. The decision may be challenged, for Islands in the Stream is in many ways a stunningly bad book. At his best, Ernest Hemingway the writer knew that Papa Hemingway the public figure was his own worst literary creation. One suspects he would have eventually got round to slashing Islands in the Stream back by a third or a half its present length. Yet for Papa watchers and Hemingway...
...wreck. (Patrick and Gregory, Hemingway's two sons by his second wife, were injured in an auto crash in 1947.) In "Bimini," though, Hudson's confrontation with this tragedy is mercifully kept brief. Most of the section is a summer idyl, drenched in martini golds and Gulf Stream blues, centered around the sons and an only slightly too epic fishing trip on what is clearly Hemingway's famous fishing boat, the Pilar...
...some ways, Islands in the Stream is a rambling family anecdote. Yet in it, Hemingway occasionally succeeds in escaping total self-preoccupation-through love. Only faintly disguised as fiction, Thomas Hudson's recollection of his sons, in life and death, is clearly an attempt by the author to weave some sort of protective magic around them. Hemingway was an openly superstitious man. But anyone with children will find that easy to forgive. What father does not secretly believe he can avert tragedy by imagining it in advance, or hope that he can protect his children by holding them steadily...