DECEMBER BOOK
December's book will be To Have and Have Not (https://www.amazon.com/Have-Not-Scribner-Classics/dp/0684859238/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1574664524&sr=8-1) by Ernest Hemingway. Come and join our merry band of bibulous bibliophiles at the Sylvia Hotel Lounge on the evening of Tuesday, December 4. As usual, it's a 7pm start time and newcomers and the idly curious are always welcome.
In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a new level. As the Times Literary Supplement observed, "Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, and for communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, has never been more conspicuous."
