This book combines close literary analysis withrecent research on culture and the spaces humans inhabit. By examining a widerange of Hemingway´s writing, including excerpts from his letters; shortstories such as Big Two-Hearted River and On the Quai at Smyrna ; theposthumously-published The Last Good Country and A Moveable Feast; and the novels The Sun Also Rises and AFarewell To Arms, Laura Gruber Godfrey shows how characters´ immersions inplace are essential to Hemingway´s fiction. Revising conventional views ofHemingway´s various landscapes as literary symbols or external settings foraction, Godfrey shows that, for Hemingway, humans and geography are oftencoextensive and interdependent.
