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Ernest Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees
Ernest Hemingway wrote many very highly regarded works of literary fiction. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature shortly after The Old Man and the Sea was published. Many of you have heard of him. Some of you have read him. I bet none of you have read this.
Critics hated it. They found it lacking.
Hemingway himself said "all my prior works were simple algebra and geometry compared to this. This is calculus. If the critics can't understand it, to hell with them."
Those are bold words coming from the author of To Have and Have Not. Bolder still from the author of For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Any thoughts on Across the River? The title of the book is a Stonewall Jackson quote.
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