Ernest Hemingway

Islands in the Stream

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With a variety of themes and moods, dynamic action scenes and-unexpectedly-a rich and ribald sense of humor, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM tells a story closely resembling Hemingway’s life. Thomas Hudson is «a good painter.» His solitary life of artistic self-discipline on the lush Caribbean island of Bimini is interrupted by a visit from his three lively sons. In a thrilling descriptive scene, David, the middle boy, shows his courage when attacked by a shark and his endurance while fighting a thousand-pound swordfish. It is an initiation into manhood. Years later, Hudson is in Cuba mourning the death of his oldest son. A chance encounter with his first wife renews their passionate commitment to each other. In the final episode, a masterpiece of action and adventure, Hudson captains an improvised Q-boat hunting down the survivors of aGerman submarine. This assignment requires a kind of discipline wholly different from his creative life as a painter-but no less important to his integrity. It is Thomas Hudson’s most important battle. «I don’t have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well.-Thomas Hudson
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  • Keipyhas quoted9 years ago
    “Mr. Davis and I are always scared,” Andrew said. “It’s possibly our superior intelligence.”
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    “I’m liable to start thinking about the novel. Tommy, why is it fun to paint well and hell to write well? I never painted well. But it was fun even the way I painted.”
    “I don’t know,” Thomas Hudson said. “Maybe in painting the tradition and the line are clearer and there are more people helping you. Even when you break from the straight line of great painting, it is always there to help you.”
    “I think another thing is that better people do it,” Roger said. “If I were a good enough guy maybe I could have been a good painter. Maybe I’m just enough of a son of a bitch to be a good writer.”
  • Keipyhas quoted9 years ago
    When a man lives in a house by himself he gets very precise habits and they get to be a pleasure. But it felt good to have some of them broken up. He knew he would have his habits again long after he would no longer have the boys.

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