Hemingway
Based upon archival research and personal interviews, the essays recreate biographical and historical contexts that illuminate many facets of Hemingway's work and career. The style of the pieces is characteristically direct and assertive. Whether or notreaders agree with all of his conclusions, they will find the essays of Jeffrey Meyers accessible, informative, and invigorating. (Hugh Witemeyer,The Future of Modernism)Meyers is an adventurous scholar who finds out things about Hemingway that have eluded his less adventurous rivals....In the final essay of this lively collection, he goes behind the scenes to reveal himself as a shrewd and indefatigable searcher after the truth of his subject. (Eugene Goodheart,Does Literary Studies Have a Future)