Islands in the Stream (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Plot: Adventure romance
- Time of Work: The late 1930’s and early 1940’s
- Setting: Bimini, Cuba
- Principal Characters: Thomas Hudson, Tom, Tom’s Mother, David, Roger Davis, Honest Lil, Henry
- Genres: Long fiction, Adventure
- Subjects: Parents and children, Love or romance, 1940’s, World War II, 1930’s, Fathers, Islands, Death or dying, Painting or painters, Cuba or Cubans, Soldiers, Fishing or fishermen, Submarines
- Locales: Cuba, Bimini, Cuba
The Novel
Islands in the Stream was assembled from Hemingway’s manuscripts by his widow and his publisher ten years after his death, and although the book has a certain unfinished quality, it contains most of the Hemingway ingredients. Like much of his fiction, Islands in the Stream is strongly autobiographical, but this last novel carries even more of the fears and fantasies of this major American writer.
The novel is divided into three separate books, held together mainly by the character of Thomas Hudson. Part 1, “Bimini,” is the longest and most...
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