Hemingway’s Suitcase (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Donald Heiney
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1980’s
- Setting: Los Angeles and New York City
- Principal Characters: Nils-frederik Glas, Lars “alan” Glas, Lily Glas, Kilda Glas, Birgit “nana” Glas, Charmian Berghe, Wolfgang “wolf” Ober, Klipspringer, Nick Adams
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, Power, personal or social, Sex or sexuality, New York City, Poetry or poets, California, West, U.S., Detectives, Mysteries, Theft, Cookery or cooks, Masks, Fraud, Christmas
- Locales: New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA
America has a rich literary tradition of rogues and frauds: some comically sinister, such as the King and the Duke in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884); others Satanic with cosmic implications, such as the shape- shifting protagonist of Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man (1857). In Hemingway’s Suitcase, MacDonald Harris’ contribution to this tradition is Nils-Frederik Glas, who may or may not have found a long-lost suitcase containing early works by Ernest Hemingway. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exposes the deep- rooted...
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