Brilliance, Wit And Rage: The Letters Of Ernest Hemingway

Sarah Churchwell at the British newspaper the Guardian reviews a book of the late great writer Ernest Hemingway's letters from his youth.

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: 1907-22 is the first volume of the long-awaited complete letters, which are anticipated to run to 12 volumes. Of the 7,000 letters he wrote during his life, readers have until now had only Carlos Baker's 1,000-page edited selection covering 1917-61. Hemingway's correspondence, he said himself, was "often libellous, always indiscreet, often obscene"; his letters burst off the page with all his swaggering vigour, brio, brilliance, wit and rage, uncensored and unrestrained.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/mar/09/letters-of-ernest-hemingway-review?newsfeed=true