Perennial Favorites Collection: To Have and Have Not (Paperback)

from hemlokgang

How far would you go to support your loved ones? This is a tale of one man's downfall while he tries to do just that. It is a dark tale. It is also a cautionary tale of the dark side of wealth and what it can take to accumulate it. Hemingway is a master storyteller, but I doubt you need me to tel...

from Garp83

If I ever read To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway before, it did not stick because I have no recollection of it. I went through a decidedly passionate Hemingway phase in my teens and again in my early twenties, but I don't recall this work, although I remember quite vividly A Farewell to Ar...

from OccassionalRead

To Have and Have Not may be America's Depression Era equivalent of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times and it was the worst of times for those Americans at opposite ends of the economic spectrum. The Haves were the rich and idle vacationers in the Florida Keys, those with man...

from LCoale1

I must say I was biased by this book because Hemingway is my favorite author. I didn't understand everything that happened in this book, either, because of Hemingway's famous vague-ness, but that's okay. It had everything I like in a novel: crime, rich buttheads, poetically rambling sentences, an...

from mcolv

"On the other hand, a surgeon cannot desist while operating for fear of hurting the patient. But why must all the operations in life be performed without an anaesthetic?" -from To Have and Have Not If you've read Hemingway you know what to expect. If you've seen the movie with Humphrey Bogart, it...