{"product_id":"books-islands-in-the-stream-by-ernest-hemingway","title":"Islands in the Stream","description":"\u003cb\u003e A LATER CLASIC FROM AMERICA'S PREMIER FICTION WRITER \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingway's death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer -- a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, \u003ci\u003eIslands in the Stream\u003c\/i\u003e follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War I. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eErnest Hemingway\u003c\/b\u003e did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer in the twentieth century, and for his efforts he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. Hemingway wrote in short, declarative sentences and was known for his tough, terse prose. Publication of \u003ci\u003eThe Sun Also Rises\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/i\u003e immediately established Ernest Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. As part of the expatriate community in 1920s Paris, the former journalist and World War I ambulance driver began a career that lead to international fame. Hemingway was an aficionado of bullfighting and big-game hunting, and his main protagonists were always men and women of courage and conviction, who suffered unseen scars, both physical and emotional. He covered the Spanish Civil War, portraying it in fiction in his brilliant novel \u003ci\u003eFor Whom the Bell Tolls\u003c\/i\u003e, and he subsequently covered World War I. His classic novella \u003ci\u003eThe Old Man and the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. He died in 1961.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480355725585,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780743253420.jpg?v=1777546515","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-islands-in-the-stream-by-ernest-hemingway","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}