From AudioFile
The eighteen stories in this collection provide wonderful examples of Hemingway's spare style. Stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" are full of tremendous emotion just barely restrained, and so is Stacy Keach's voice as he reads them. Every word, and every pause, is full of meaning, with the result often feeling more like a one-man dramatization than a simple reading. Hemingway was deeply concerned with what it means to be a man, and Keach's powerfully masculine tones fit the stories perfectly. When he reads "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," one can hear the mix of strength, pride, and doubt that defined Hemingway. G.T.B. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
Présentation de l'éditeur
Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. This collection, The Short Stories, originally published in 1938, is definitive. Among these forty-nine short stories are Hemingway's earliest efforts, written when he was a young foreign correspondent in Paris, and such masterpieces as "Hills Like White Elephants," "The Killers," "The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber," and "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the American Midwest, this collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style -- from the plain, bald language of his first story, "Up in Michigan," to the seamless prose and spare, eloquent pathos of "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" to the expansive solitude of the Big Two-Hearted River stories. These stories showcase the singular talent of a master, the most important American writer of the twentieth century.
