Vonnegut and Hemingway : Writers at War.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vonnegut's Secret Sharer -- Part 1 Broken Places -- One: Family Secrets: The Absent Mother and Father -- Two: Hemingway's Sun, Vonnegut's Night: The Spoils of War -- Three: Duty Dance with Death: A Farewell to Arms and Slaughterhouse-Five -- Four: Spiritual Manifestos: Breakfast of Champions, Death in the Afternoon, and Green Hills of Africa -- Part 2 The Androgynous Turn -- Five: From Jailbird to Canary Bird: To Have and Have Not and Jailbird -- Six: Anima and Animus in For Whom the Bell Tolls and Slapstick -- Seven: A Soldier's Confessions: Across the River and into the Trees and Hocus Pocus -- Eight: Now It's Women's Turn: The Rescue of Eurydice -- Nine: A Literary Farewell: Timequake and Under Kilimanjaro -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Against this onslaught, he asserts, they wrote as a mode of therapy and achieved literary greatness through combative opposition to the shadows that loomed so large around them.

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