Dec 27, 2009
Islands in the Stream | Islands in the Stream
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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