In Our Time

A collection of vignettes and stories, including the Nick Adams tale "e;Indian Camp,"e; from one of American literature's greatest twentieth-century writers. This volume of short fiction offers brief glimpses into Ernest Hemingway's life and mind, portraying the evolution of an artist a writer of nonfiction testing the form's limits, stretching his imagination, and experimenting with the "e;fibrous and athletic"e; language that would propel his novels and make its mark on literary history (The New York Times). In Our Time features famous Nick Adams stories such as "e;Indian Camp,"e; in which Nick gets a hard lesson in the reality of birth and death, "e;The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife,"e; "e;The Three-Day Blow,"e; "e;The Battler,"e; and "e;Big Two-Hearted River,"e; Parts I and II. There are scenes of war, bullfights, and brutality, but also moments of humor, albeit dark, and beauty. In Our Time captures a moment in a master's career, in which we are given a hint of what is to come . . .