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 From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love.

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who throng the region and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.

In this harshly realistic, yet oddly tender and wise novel, Hemingway perceptively delineates the personal struggles of both the "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. By turns funny and tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest.©1937 Ernest Hemingway. Copyright renewed ©1965 Mary Hemingway. ©1934 Hearst Magazine, Inc. Copyright renewed ©1962 Mary Hemingway. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form; (P)2006 Simon & Schuster Inc. All rights reserved Action & Adventure Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Sea Adventures Thriller & Suspense Adventure Fiction Suspense
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Hemmingway is consistently brilliant.
There is no one else like him in their description of scenes, characters and dialogue.
absolutely wonderful.

captivating

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What else to say beyond the headline? Superbly written by Hemingway, bleak, to the point, sometimes with a tenderness under the despair.
A novel during the US recession era set between Miami and Cuba which got Hemingway into trouble for its supposedly Marxist content.
The highlight for me though was the incredible narration of Will Patton who brought Hemingway's language and the mood to life. The best narrator I've come across on Audible, possibly also because he was backed by a full production team who gets credited in the end.
More Audible of this quality please!!!

Loved the dialogue and incredible narration

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I've not read Hemingway for years, I'd forgotten how poetic and beautifully he writes. Farewell To Arms was the other and will have to go back to it. His writing is so well defined now, the toughest, manliest of men writing about quite often simple uncomplicated people, but I think he is unusual. The centre of him is beguiling, restless and haunting, it feels more like poetry than a novel. Recently got his short stories and will probably go on to more. Wonderful

Poetry in motion

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Great narration and performance and it's peppered with some of his finest passages of writing.

excellent performance

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... so long as you can get past the n... word, the ch... word used as a matter of course, for the most it's when the characters speak but occasionally it seems it's the author that's speaking.
It is a different story to the film of the same name with just a few scenes taken from the book, but there are also parts used for another Bogart film in the same vein you may recognise.

Great read and great story..

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