Islands in the Stream
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-12-10
ISBN: 0684837870
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: "Thomas Hudson was a good painter..."
Summary: 4 Stars
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (1970) is the first of Hemingway's posthumously published works. It is a loosely structured work of fiction comprising three novelettes about the Hemingwayesque protagonist Thomas Hudson and his life in the Caribbean.
A fourth novelette originally to be included in ISLANDS IN THE STREAM became Hemingway's masterwork, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA and was published separately, receiving the Pulitzer Prize and leading to Hemingway's Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.
Just as THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA reflects Hemingway in his full maturity (and just a little past the peak of his powers), ISLANDS IN THE STREAM is a more thoughtful and reflective work than we've seen earlier.
In "Bimini," the first novelette, we are introduced to Hudson, a contented middle-aged man who has come to terms with his inadequacies and is finding pleasure in his day-to-day life and his children. Hemingway's prose is not stirring, but it provides a perfect, measured view of Hudson and his life on the island. Hemingway's descriptions of Hudson's house, his pleasure in watching driftwood burn, and his quiet happiness are all the more powerful for their understatement. The tragedy that marks "Bimini" is far more disturbing for all that.
"Cuba" places Hudson on that island some years later during World War II. Hudson has become far more discontented, and is struggling to make peace with one of his ex-wives, again drawn together in the midst of a personal tragedy. Less dynamic than "Bimini," "Cuba" is still a portrait of the artist, but in the midst of war and loss and without his art.
"At Sea" takes us to the ultimate crisis of Hudson's life, encountered while hunting a Nazi submarine operating in Gulf Stream waters. Strongly reminiscent of FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, this last of the tryptych portrait is also the most powerful of the three novelettes.
ISLANDS IN THE STREAM was unfinished at the time of Hemingway's death in 1961, and was finalized by Mary Welsh Hemingway and Charles Scribner, who edited, but added nothing. A work that feels both meaningful and unfinished, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM reflects Hemingway's own inner journey.
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