Nick Adams Stories
by Ernest Hemingway
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Author: Ernest HemingwayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1981-02-01
ISBN: 0684169401
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Scribner
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Book Review: Includes Some First Rate Stories
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very interesting set of stories, including some less known and uneven works, but also including first rate pieces. "The Killers", of course, is a classic. The most emotionally affecting story is "Indian Camp", which involves the protagonist's youthful witness of a suicide and talking it through with his father. The story is moving in large part because of the sensitive treatment of the child's struggle with his own mortality and in part given how Hemingway's own life ended. It is wonderfully written and vivid.
Many of the stories deal with fishing, hunting, and the outdoors. "Big Two-Hearted River" and the "Last Good Country" paint romantic pictures of the great outdoors and are quite well done. The latter has a harder edge of a kid on the run, though, as with many of the stories, I'm not satisfied with how Hemingway ends the story. Many of the stories leave you hanging.
The idea of the "Nick Adams" stories is that this is a character (along with his friend "Bill") that reappears time and again, and appears to be autobiographical. Ironically enough, in one of the stories Hemingway talks about writing and criticizes Joyce's work (except for Ulysses) for being too autobiographical. One needs more distance from the main character to keep from lapsing into romanticisim and sentimentality, argues Hemingway. It's better just to make things up, he continues. Are the Nick Adams truly Hemingway's best by reason of this same criticism?
Also fascinating is the extent to which Hemingway's characters define themselves in their connection with the outdoors and with their friends. There is very little mention of one's work. Americans in the 21st century are all about their work and define themselves through their work and their relation to family. Hemingway does not write a great deal about the former (though he does spend some limited time on the latter). It's not necessarily a deficit in his work, but it does indicate how times have changed.
One very good story concerns a punch drunk boxer who picks a fight with Nick Adams. It's a moving and vivid story, but marred by the gratuitous racism directed toward "the nig___r" who breaks up the fight before it starts. Yes, that's the word used at the time, but Hemingway lingers a bit too much over the "nig___r" way in which the character talks. There's a mean-spiritedness to Hemingway that is quite disconcerting.
On the whole, this is an interesting collection that includes some pricelessly good stories.
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