It's a Jungle in There

                                 

A shockingly modern novel is The Garden of Eden. This is the second of Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novels (begin in 1946, pub. in 1986) and I confess that I had stayed away from old Ernest for some time, remembering a particularly boring read in The Old Man and the Sea back in my high school days. This book wouldn't exactly be fit for the high school set , but maybe it would have had me reading the man's books for the almost seven years I secretly avoided his renowned tomes.  This book has got a tortured writer terrified of his own success, a crazy sexpot wife who picks up threesome candidates, sexy European settings, the booze is constantly flowing. You can almost smell the sex in the salty Meditereanean breeze or on the pungent breath of your seductive lunch partner whose had a few martinis.

I can only feel as if this book can end in a Gatsby-esque pleasure-driven perversion of love.... I'll keep you posted on what happens in this salacious read...belles don't watch soap operas, they read romantic realism!

Comments

[Tracee]

Thanks for the heads up - I too steered clear of Ernest for the same reason, maybe it's time for me to pick him up again. Great blog!