<strong>Men Without Women</strong> was a milestone in Hemingways career. Fiesta had alreadyestablished him as a novelist of exceptional power but with these sho... » 

Men Without Women was a milestone in Hemingways career. Fiesta had alreadyestablished him as a novelist of exceptional power but with these shortstories his second collection he showed that it is possible within the spaceof a few pages to recreate a scene with absolute truth bringing to lifedetails observed only by the eye of a uniquely gifted artist. Hemingways menare bullfighters and boxers hired hands and hard drinkers gangsters andgunmen. Each of their stories deals with masculine toughness unsoftened bywomans hand. Incisive hardedged pared down to the bare minimum they areclassic Hemingway territory. «