Torrents of Spring

The Nobel Prize–winning author delivers “full-blooded comedy, with a sting of satire at the expense of certain literary affectations,” in this early work (The New York Times).
 
Rumored to have been written in ten days to break a contract with his publisher, Ernest Hemingway’s The Torrents of Spring sets out to mock the reigning literary conventions of the time, including the novels of Hemingway’s...