The Torrents Of Spring: Ernest Hemingway

Subtitled `A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race`, The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway`s second published work - wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the `great race` of writers of his generation.
Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O`Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up with Yogi Johnson. Their bizarre stories are a brilliant satire on conventional fiction. The characters they meet are absurd and yet strangely familiar. Short, fast-paced, funny, The Torrents of Spring throws light on Hemingway`s later work - and is a delight to read. Here we can see the developing talent of one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.