jamesinalaska
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I've just finished reading a biography of Ernest Hemingway. This biography was by Anthony Burgess, the author of A Clockwork Orange, so, as you can expect, Burgess did not shy away from the unpleasantnesses of Hemingway's life story.
Burgess's book had two images of Hemingway as a teenager with a firearm. I'm pretty sure I can identify the lever action shotgun (bottom) but I am not so sure of the pistol Hemingway is shown carrying along with the fishing rod. By the thin barrel I suspect the pistol to be a .22. Can THR members identify these firearms? The photos were taken from between 1910 and 1914.
Hemingway wrote a series of short stories centered on a character named Nick Adams, a WWI veteran returning home. The most popular of these stories would probably have to be The Big Two-Hearted River, where the character goes back to a boyhood fishing spot. As you read these stories the image you will likely get of Nick Adams is very similar to the image of Hemingway with the fly rod. (Below).
Burgess's book had two images of Hemingway as a teenager with a firearm. I'm pretty sure I can identify the lever action shotgun (bottom) but I am not so sure of the pistol Hemingway is shown carrying along with the fishing rod. By the thin barrel I suspect the pistol to be a .22. Can THR members identify these firearms? The photos were taken from between 1910 and 1914.
Hemingway wrote a series of short stories centered on a character named Nick Adams, a WWI veteran returning home. The most popular of these stories would probably have to be The Big Two-Hearted River, where the character goes back to a boyhood fishing spot. As you read these stories the image you will likely get of Nick Adams is very similar to the image of Hemingway with the fly rod. (Below).