Vonnegut & Hemingway

A study of surprising similarities in their lives and works “adds an important element to the existing discussion” of two twentieth-century literary icons ( Studies in American Humor ). In this original comparative study of Kurt Vonnegut and Ernest Hemingway, Lawrence R. Broer maps the striking intersections of biography and artistry in works by both writers, and compares the ways they blend life and art. Broer views Hemingway as the “secret sharer” of Vonnegut’s literary imagination and argues