Peri Hoskins
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Millennium - A Memoir
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I have just re-read Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I first read this novel in 1982. It was my first year of university. The book was part of my twentieth century literature course. I loved the book then. It introduced me to Hemingway’s spare and masculine prose. He wasted no words. And for me, like Hemingway, less was more. I also much enjoyed the second reading. In particular I liked the 