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HEMINGWAY:- UP IN MICHIGAN PERSPECTIVES edited by Frederick J. Svoboda and Joseph J. Waldmeir. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995. viii + 289 pp. $37.95.
This collection of Hemingway scholarship documents what must have been a superb meeting of the Michigan Hemingway Society in October 1991, in a strikingly appropriate setting-Petosky, Michigan. Purists may complain that the conference organizers should have limited its papers to "Hemingway and Michigan," a general heading that covers nine of the essays, but few Hemingway scholars would not wish to read the discussion of the "Jimmy Breen" manuscript by Michael Reynolds and Linda Wagner-Martin or examine the fifteen other essays on later Hemingway stories or novels, including A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, For Mom the Bell Tolls, and Across the River and Into the Trees.
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