The Lousy Racket : Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature.

Cover -- Dedication -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Introduction: Hemingway as Professional Author and the House of Scribner -- Chapter 1: Learning the Trade: Boni and Liveright, In Our Time, and the Move to Scribners -- Chapter 2: Strengthening the Bond: The Publication of The Torrents of Spring, The Sun Also Rises, and Men Without Women -- Chapter 3: "It's No Fun for Me on Acct. of the Blanks": The Serialization and Publication of A Farewell to Arms -- Chapter 4: "A Writer Should Never Repeat": In Our Time and Death in the Afternoon -- Chapter 5: "You Can't Be Popular All the Time": Winner Take Nothing and Green Hills of Africa -- Chapter 6: "Their Money's Worth": To Have and Have Not and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories -- Chapter 7: The Blockbuster: For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Chapter 8: After Perkins: Across the River and Into the Trees and The Old Man and the Sea -- Epilogue: Hemingway after The Old Man and the Sea -- Appendixes -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index.

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