In Our Time

A collection of vignettes and stories, including the Nick Adams tale &quote;Indian Camp,&quote; 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 &quote;fibrous and athletic&quote; 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 &quote;Indian Camp,&quote; in which Nick gets a hard lesson in the reality of birth and death, &quote;The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife,&quote; &quote;The Three-Day Blow,&quote; &quote;The Battler,&quote; and &quote;Big Two-Hearted River,&quote; 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 . . .