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15 Jun, 2021
Overrated Hemingway Needed and Editor
Hemingway's reputation as a great writer whose ground-breaking style served as a model for writers succeeding him is truly mystifying. Hemingway must have built that reputation by relying on connections among literati of his early days...on rich adoring women...but, most important, on a publisher who pushed his work by providing publicists who overrated Hemingway's skill as a writer and oversold his work. Some of the stories in this collection are all right, pretty good even. Some are OK. Some are just plain blah. These stories needed an editor. One of the stories ("The Undefeated") is much, much too long. The composition of some of the stories is reader insensitive; the composition sometimes leaves the reader wondering who is the speaker in a dialogue; the composition sometimes lacks the punctuation needed to keep the reader moving along clearly and easily. This is stuff easily fixable by a competent editor. Hemingway was no Mark Twain...or Edith Wharton...or Henry James...or you pick from thousands of writers whose work fills the shelves of your library.