To Have and Have Not is the dramatic, brutal story ofHarry Morgan, an honest boat owner who is forced into runningcontraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping hiscrumbling family financially afloat. His adventures lead him intothe world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm theregion, 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 boththe "haves" and the "have nots" and creates one of the most subtleand moving portraits of a love affair in his oeuvre. In turn funnyand tragic, lively and poetic, remarkable in its emotional impact,To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a newlevel. As the Times Literary Supplement observed,"Hemingway's gift for dialogue, for effective understatement, andfor communicating such emotions the tough allow themselves, hasnever been more conspicuous."
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