The Garden of Eden by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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The last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, published posthumously in 1986, charts the life of a young American writer and his glamorous wife who fall for the same woman.A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Côte d’Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. “A lean, sensuous narrative…taut, chic, and strangely contemporary,” The Garden of Eden represents vintage Hemingway, the master “doing what nobody did better” (R. Z. Sheppard, Time).

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⭐Hemingway is primarily known for his works about hunting and bullfighting, but few seem to have read his novel published 25 years after his death. Eden tells the story of newlywed couple David Bourne, a young American writer, and his wife Catherine, honeymooning on the French Rivera in the 1920s. Catherine, hungry for a change, decides to cut her hair off like a man’s and asks David to call her the man in bed, while she refers to him as the woman. Soon, they spot an intriguing woman at a cafe and she quickly becomes entangled in their lives; Catherine talks David into starting a polyamorous relationship with Marita, where they take turns spending the day with her and sleeping with her. Intertwining with a short story David is writing which involves hunting elephants with his father, David and Marita ultimately have to decide how to deal with Catherine’s impulsive behavior. Unlike most of Hemingway’s hyper-masculine works, this gives a glimpse at his softer side.People seem to be really polarized about this book, but as a writer who’s interested in the writing process, it’s fabulous and insightful. The story is raw and very much Hemingway (whether or not it was all Ernest; I believe his son had a big hand in this one). Love the beach setting and gives me a little bit of Tender is the Night and Bonjour Tristesse. This one will be added to my favorites shelf!

⭐Knowing this novel’s troubled publication history and the story of its severe editing (one critic says it is not true to Hemingway’s intentions) makes commentary on it somewhat of a risk. I approached with caution but immediately like many found myself under the spell of this work. Hemingway’s sublime tersefulness is there as well as his rich if troubled humanjty. Relationships between men and women in love were always one of his most revisited themes and here they are captured in a dangerous swirl of shifting identities and loyalties. It is his most sexual book. The Garden of Eden is exactly that… The book makes you want to throw up everything and rush to the South of France…. to live and lie in the heart and arms of a wildly impassioned beautiful lover, or two…. But of course without the arguments, confusion, and suffering…. The novel is gripping, even entrancing. The meditation on the art of story-telling is just one of its engaging asides.

⭐Critics pounced when this posthumous work came out — editors had cut the original by 2/3 to make the unfinished story work, but this is my fave Hemingway. Young writer is on honeymoon. Mornings, he writes about tracking a bull elephant in Africa with his father. Afternoons, he’s skinny dipping and making love with his new wife and a “girl” the wife picked up. On one level it’s the height of machismo — elephant hunt, two beautiful women in thrall. On another level, it’s about the demise of machismo. The boy on safari doesn’t want to kill the elephant that his father is hell bent on destroying. The man on honeymoon doesn’t want his macho self destroyed. Some critics said it’s about a “difficult woman.” To me, it’s about the “new woman” of the 1920s who can do whatever the hell she wants in spite of daddy’s clueless old school machismo.

⭐A long-narrative consummation of the ability of the simple but luminous style of Hemingway’s early short stories to catch the present moment; a prime expression of the young Hemingway’s gentleness; and a perhaps unequaled integration of the creative writing process into fictional narrative. It’s better than all the great author’s work than “The First 49 Stories,” “The Sun Also Rises,” and, somewhat equivocally, “Farewell to Arms” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls.” (To hesitate to think “Farewell” great is mavarick, but I find its treatments of both love and war excessively sentimental; to include “Bell” among Hemingway’s very best is unusual enough to practically mandate equivocation, but I am convinced by its treatments of cowardice and courage.) Ignore the fact that Hemingway didn’t get to finish the work and that publication we have cannot be just what he would have provided. The proof is in the pudding.

⭐I am so pumped to get this novel! I’m even more excited to get it in this hardcover edition! I have to admit I was ecstatic to open the box and find this book in the shrink wrap! I haven’t opened it yet, as I am waiting until I plan to actually read it! But I can say one thing for certain: it was well worth the 4 or 5 day wait to hold it in my hands!And I am really anxious to start reading it!You can’t go wrong buying & reading a Hemingway novel! The way I see it is every time you read a Hemingway you actually become a better human being in ways few people can even understand!

⭐The story is brilliant. I lost reality of the present and truth just as the main character. It seems the main character wanted peace and normalcy, but could not understand the change of his wife. I believe his wife represents the changes in social structure of the home and women’s role at the time after WWI. Loving his wife he condoned and participated at the cost of his perception of reality. The book he is writing and the sudden departure of his wife while still being able to recall his story is the haunting of memory but also the clarity of time. Grappling with societal changes and haunting memories, the story is relevant to current time and a joy to partake.

⭐I am an admirer of Hemingway’s writing, but for years, was reluctant to pick up this book, certain that it was just a publisher’s gimmick for squeezing money out of a dead writer’s leftover scribblings.I was wrong. This book is vintage Hemingway, up there with his best work, written in a prose that has lyrical beauty and resonance. To my mind, critics have exaggerated the importance and nature of the sexual “anomalies.” It’s the story of a young couple trying to find themselves, be happy, and make each other happy. It’s also a portrait of the artist as a young man. It takes a dark turn toward the end, but Hemingway’s evocation of life and living it to the fullest transcends everything else.

⭐The text of the book is sideways. It is really strange and impossible to read.

⭐A simply stunning read. Magnificently poignant and tragically left unfinished. From the pieced together scraps that we have here, we can see what may well have been Hemingway’s finest novel. A daring and insightful look into love, romance, sex and gender that Hemingway spent over a decade researching – he even crashed his brand new car so that he was better able to describe the experience (the original ending had the character of Catherine dying in a car crash).

⭐I can go through life without having read The Great Gatsby and for that matte other books by the author, but to go through life without having read Hemingway would be a travesty. Another good read

⭐A great novel, compulsive, absorbing, wonderful example of his style.

⭐A novel of identity and influence, with a some gender displacement thrown in. Excellent.

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