National Review, May 23rd, 1986
The Garden of Eden
HEMINGWAY'S WEAKER novels, based on recycled rather than recent experience, are more autobiographically revealing than his greatest fiction. The Garden of Eden is not nearly as good as Islands in the Stream, but it is worth reading for the light it casts on Hemingway's second marriage (to Pauline Pfeiffer), his hair fetishism, and his sexual fantasies--though anyone who picks up the novel for descriptions of kinky sex will be seriously disappointed.
Hemingway began to write the novel at the beginning of 1946--between For Whom the Bell Tolls and Across the River and into ...
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