Hemingway's Chair

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: “Throughout, Palin’s empathetic humor informs this perceptive tribute to the art of manliness.” — Entertainment Weekly Martin Sproale is an assistant postmaster obsessed with Ernest Hemingway. Martin lives in a small English village, where he studies his hero and putters about harmlessly—until an ambitious outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster instead of Martin. Slick and self-assured, Nick steals Martin’s girlfriend and decides to modernize