Islands in the Stream: A Novel

Ernest Hemingway

Jul 2003 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

A later, posthumously published classic following the adventures of a painter in the midst of World War II.

First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer—a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale.

Ratings and reviews

Hemmingway's use of imagery is extremely useful in the foreshadowing of the events that occur throughout the novel. Although a slow opening, the book has many exciting as well as dramatic incidents that capture the readers attention throughout the novel. He uses diction and quotes the characters extremely well. It is a great read and you will be thoroughly enthralled with the result at the end. It is a more difficult read but well worth it.

Should never have been published. Papa must have known that it needed to be tightened up drastically. Not up to his brilliance.

This was a great book, one of the first hemingways I read, and it was a brilliant read. Ok its not as good as the old man and the sea, but what is?

About the author

Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.