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Ernest Hemingway, Dateline: Toronto: Hemingway's Complete Toronto Star Dispatches 1920-1924

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Sadly the print version is out of print (ordered it used a few years ago). It is an amazing book, and in it, you discover Hemingway, had a marvellous sense of humor, his description of a fauz artsy Paris Cafe filled with "... [the] oldest scum, the thickest scum and the scummiest scum..." are just of the few treats in store.

It gets four stars, only in that, a longer introduction, would have been better, and some annotation. A few of the articles are boring (a good amount in the very begning, and a lot towards the end), the former because he's still finding his footing, the later because he aperanlty had what became a soured profesional relationship with the editor.

If you are a fellow Hemingway fanatic, espcieally of his earlier stuff, this book, is priceless. There is aa kindle edition if you don't want to buy one used, well worth the price. Looking forward to getting the new Collected Letters out by the Cabridge Press, wich should make a solid companion.