Men Without Women

Men Without Women by Hemingway, Ernest. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780020518907.

"Men Without Women" was a milestone in Hemingways career. "Fiesta" had already established him as a novelist of exceptional power, but with these short stories, his second collection, he showed that it is possible, within the space of a few pages, to recreate a scene with absolute truth, bringing to life details observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingways men are bullfighters and boxers, hired hands and hard drinkers, gangsters and gunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened by womans hand. Incisive, hard-edged, pared down to the bare minimum, they are classic Hemingway territory.