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Article: Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice.(Ernest Hemingway)(Book Review)
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- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Ernest Hemingway Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Edited by Lawrence R. Broer and Gloria Holland. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2002. 353 PP. Cloth $39.95.
In a review of In Our Time, D.H. Lawrence wrote of Hemingway's unusual collection: "In Our Time calls itself a book of stories, but it isn't that. It is a series of sketches from a man's life, and makes a fragmentary novel" (quoted in Clifford 12). The book mirrors, in short, uncertainty of form. That might be true, in the best sense, of Hemingway and Women: Female Critics and the Female Voice. It's certainly a volume of collected criticism--nothing new in that--but it's also a gathering of female voices, seventeen ways of talking about the ...