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Article: A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon.(Book Review)
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- The Hemingway Review
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- March 22, 2005
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Review of A Companion to Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. Edited by Miriam Mandel. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2004. 360 pp. Hardcover $90.
My favorite sentence in Miriam Mandel's intriguing collection of twelve essays appears in the final essay. Keneth Kinnamon's opening line in his chapter about the "legacy" of Death in the Afternoon reads: "All modern American taurine literature, comes from one book by Ernest Hemingway called Death in the Afternoon" (283). Part of the pleasure in Kinnamon's sentence lies in its good-natured parodic tickle. Although laughter lies beyond the parameters of Death in the Afternoon, its fleeting presence was most welcome after ...