I received this book from my friend Aimee for my birthday. It is a part of the Great Michigan Read, and I am really enjoying it so far. I haven't read a lot of Hemingway--I think the only other work of his I've read is The Old Man and the Sea, and it was a long time ago--but I am definitely enjoying his terse, unflowery prose so far. This book is the first publication of all of Hemingway's Nick Adam stories (stories loosely based on his experiences spending summers in Northern Michigan as well as other coming-of-age tales) in one place. Some of them he never finished. It is interesting reading these works, and experiencing a literary genius, deconstructed. Makes me realize all writers, as they draft, are imperfect at first.

Oh yeah, the other cool thing is that Jack Jobst is in the bibliography.  I knew of Jack's research interest in Hemingway, but it was still neat to see my former prof and family friend's name as I read some of the back story for this book.

-Em