Ernest Hemingway 1923 passport photo, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

This book contains some marvelous stories, including, in The First Forty-nine, a run of several that, by themselves, earn the collection four stars and support all the claims about Hemingway’s mastery of the short story form. Among these stellar stories are “In Another Country” (a physical therapy story!), the much-anthologized “Hills Like White Elephants,” “Che Ti Dice La Patria?” (a story about La Spezia, where we started our Italian vacation in 2010!), and the lovely “Big Two-Hearted River.”
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