Title: Winner Take Nothing
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Type: Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 175
Rating: 8/10
Ernest Hemingway – Winner Take Nothing
Hemingway’s a good lad – he captures my idea of what a writer should be. He shot himself, for a start, and legend has it that he wrote standing up and coined the advice “write drunk, edit sober“. This is that Hemingway, the gnarled old beast with a keen eye for the immortal presence of death, everywhere.
Winner Take Nothing is a fine collection of seventeen short stories from the pen of the great writer, stories that cover most aspects of Hemingway’s personality. Expect to see autobiographical references to great hunters and shooters, the bullfighters who so captured Ernest’s imagination, and the soldiers, doctors and nurses getting caught in a meaningless war.
I’m still a relative newcomer to Hemingway, and I’ve only read three or four of his works, but Winner Take Nothing is the most gripping and readable of the lot, so far. Ernest Hemingway is a real master of the short story as art.
Ernest Hemingway
