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I've recently reread what I think of as Hemingway's "big" novels. The Sun Also Rises was as good as I remembered; For Whom the Bell Tolls better, but Farewell doesn't live up to my memory of it. John Slattery's narration didn't help; but in any case, I thought it read like a parody of Hemingway (in the rain) and Catherine Barkley was flatly impossible. A wooden projection of the ideal woman by a misogynist, was my reaction. The truest bit about her was when Frederic Henry met Catherine and thoug
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A Farewell to Arms begins in 1915 when Henry, an American, volunteers to be an ambulance driver for the Italians in World War I. Henry is indifferent and detached from the war and survives by drinking a lot of alcohol and frequenting the local whorehouse. He eventually meets a vulnerable English nurse named Catherine and begins a primitive relationship with her.
Henry is wounded by a mortar shell and spends months in the hospital where he consummates his relationship with Catherine. They build a ...more
Henry is wounded by a mortar shell and spends months in the hospital where he consummates his relationship with Catherine. They build a ...more
I enjoyed the book, but I don't think Hemingway captured the female. She seemed more of a type or facilitator than a real person.
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