Pared down, gritty, and subtly expressive, these stories show the young Hemingway emerging as one of America’s finest short story writers. And “Hills Like White Elephants” is a young couple’s subtle, heart-wrenching discussion about the future. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a. Nick Adams makes an appearance in “Ten Indians,” in which he is presumably betrayed by his girlfriend, Prudence. I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. “The Killers” is the hard-edged story about two Chicago gunmen and their potential victim. “In Another Country” tells of an Italian major recovering from war wounds as he mourns the untimely death of his wife. The stories are about men who have lost women in their lives, usually to other men or death. In these fourteen stories, Hemingway begins to examine the themes that would occupy his later works: the casualties of war, the often-uneasy relationship between men and women, sports and sportsmanship. Men Without Women (Japanese:, Hepburn: Onna no inai otokotachi) is a 2014 collection of short stories by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, translated and published in English in 2017. Classic short stories from a master of American fiction exploring relationships, war, and sportsmanship.įirst published in 1927, Men Without Women represents some of Hemingway’s most important and compelling early writing.
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