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"Hemingway gives you the looic and feel of places, the sensuous brilliance of the world's offerings, the excitement of complex relationships, the precision of a hunt or a breakfast, the tensions of sexual intrigue In short. The Garden of Eden is a feast."
—Richard Stern, front page, Chicago Tribune Book World
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel by Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic gome they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).
"Hemingway's farewell, mannered, thrilling, spoiled, pure, loyal to its monumental maker and...
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Fülszöveg
"Hemingway gives you the looic and feel of places, the sensuous brilliance of the world's offerings, the excitement of complex relationships, the precision of a hunt or a breakfast, the tensions of sexual intrigue In short. The Garden of Eden is a feast."
—Richard Stern, front page, Chicago Tribune Book World
A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel by Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic gome they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better" (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).
"Hemingway's farewell, mannered, thrilling, spoiled, pure, loyal to its monumental maker and itself and with no knowledge of coming darkness." —James Salter, front page. The Washington Post Book World
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