{"product_id":"the-torrents-of-spring","title":"The torrents of spring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The torrents of spring (Hardcover, 90 pages – Scribner, 1972) – Scribner, 1972. Language: Eng.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCondition: Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Torrents of Spring is technically Hemingway's first novel, tho The Sun Also Rises was his first major success. He wrote this novel in a way that would force his publisher, Horace Liverwright, to refuse it \u0026amp; thus break contract. It parodies Liverwright's star author, Sherwood Anderson. He was then able to take up a more lucrative offer from Scribner's. The novel relates the intersecting lives of WWI veteran Yogi Johnson \u0026amp; writer Scripps O'Neill, both of whom work at a pump factory. Both are searching for the perfect woman. O'Neill takes mescaline \u0026amp; hallucinates he is President of Mexico. Johnson is cured of his impotence when, viewing a naked squaw, he is overcome by \"a new feeling\" which he immediately attribute to Mother Nature, \u0026amp; together he \u0026amp; the squaw \"light out for the territories\" The hero is impotent. The hero of The Sun Also Rises suffered from a war wound preventing intercourse. Many of Hemingway's short stories from this period (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen) also treat sexual dysfunction. Tho primarily a send-up of Anderson's poorly-esteemed negro novel Dark Laughter, the literary proclivities of American \u0026amp; British writers close to Anderson, such as D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce \u0026amp; John Dos Passos, are wound into the monkey-barrel of satire \u0026amp; parody.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ernest Hemingway","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52370106515738,"sku":"9780684130880","price":151.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/2699\/9322\/files\/81SuDdc11rL._SY522.jpg?v=1781778105","url":"https:\/\/medicampus.store\/products\/the-torrents-of-spring","provider":"medicampus.store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}