false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165447515m/4630.jpg 4630 33 First things first: readers coming to <I>To Have and Have Not</I> after seeing the Bogart/Bacall film should be forewarned that about the only thing the two have in common is the title. The movie concerns a brave fishing-boat captain in World War II-era Martinique who aids the French Resistance, battles the Nazis, and gets the girl in the end. The novel concerns a broke fishing-boat captain who agrees to carry contraband between Cuba and Florida in order to feed his wife and daughters. Of the two, the novel is by far the darker, more complex work.<p> The first time we meet Harry Morgan, he is sitting in a Havana bar watching a gun battle raging out in the street. After seeing a Cuban get his head blown off with a Luger, Morgan reacts with typical Hemingway understatement: "I took a quick one out of the first bottle I saw open and I couldn't tell you yet what it was. The whole thing made me feel pretty bad." Still feeling bad, Harry heads out in his boat on a charter fishing expedition for which he is later stiffed by the client. With not even enough money to fill his gas tanks, he is forced to agree to smuggle some illegal Chinese for the mysterious Mr. Sing. From there it's just a small step to carrying liquor--a disastrous run that ends when Harry loses an arm and his boat. Once Harry gets mixed up in the brewing Cuban revolution, however, even those losses seem small compared to what's at stake now: his very life.<p> Hemingway tells most of this story in the third person, but, significantly, he brackets the whole with a section at the beginning told from Harry's perspective and a short, heart-wrenching chapter at the end narrated by his wife, Marie. In between there is adventure, danger, betrayal, and death, but this novel begins and ends with the tough and tender portrait of a man who plays the cards that are dealt him with courage and dignity, long after hope is gone. <I>--Alix Wilber</I> 3347070 1937 To Have and Have Not (Scribner Classics) total:2512|5:432|4:887|3:889|2:246|1:58| 2512 8925 3338 162 1 1 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 05 01:32:32 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 00:53:11 -0800 2009
It starts very strongly -- good character development, definite Hemingway commentary tone -- lots of Hemingway Southern Hemisphere fun in Cuba.

But midway -- he just sort of wanders off and starts pointing his Hemingway at anything that moves. He introduces secondary and ...more...]]> 2 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 03:59:19 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 23 04:09:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 14:40:29 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 14:45:18 -0700 2009
THAHN is a short novel that tells mul...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 04:35:14 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 08:48:06 -0800 2008 FS Fitzgerald Wm. Faulkner and his co-writer jiggered it for the screen.

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