Big Two-Hearted River The Centennial Edition

"'Big Two-Hearted River' may be the finest piece of fiction ever written about the experience of the veteran." - The Guardian

"Matchlessly eloquent in its evocation of the pleasures of the senses and of the feeling of place. ... In 'Big Two-Hearted River,' there are moments that are not just constructed like a Cézanne painting; they look like a Cézanne painting." - Adam Gopnick, The New Yorker

"Ernest Hemingway's 'Big Two-Hearted River' retains its hold on me, some 40 years after my first reading. It is a story that can be recited and revealed-like currents in a beloved stream-as fresh as each spring day." - James F. Vesely, Seattle Times

"A masterpiece, one of those rare instances when a superb writer reaches a level reserved only for those extraordinary talents with a nose for what is fundamental but not entirely clear and rational in human existence." - Claremont Review of Books

"The finest story of the outdoors in American literature." - Sports Illustrated

"Some of the best English prose of the twentieth century." - Larry McMurtry, The New York Review of Books

"In Hemingway, fishing was always and infinitely metaphorical; Nick Adams plumbs the depths of his soul as he dangles a line." - Jay Parini, New York Times Book Review