The Best of Bad Hemingway: Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition

by Harry's Bar & American Grill

Book Overview

The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156118610
• ISBN13: 9780156118613
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Quite possibly the funniest book I have ever read

Hemingway lovers and haters will be able to unite over this superlative collection of schlock Papa. The stories are universally strong, including some real gems by the likes of E.B. White, George Plimpton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as a host of uproariously funny takeoffs by less well known authors. I nearly fell over myself laughing in the bookstore when I picked up a copy and randomly started reading. Highest recommendation.

Don't need to be a Hemingway expert to love this book...

I had only read one Hemingway novel but that was enough for me to laugh at every single story. Makes a perfect pick-me-up gift for anybody struggling with a Hemingway assignment or paper...

Papa would hate it.

The pages were filled to the margins with Bad Hemingway, and it was good.

Fun Fun Fun

If you read Hemingway you will understand this book. He was a strong character and his personality runs through his work so well that it is possible to emulate him. This book contains one-page stories in the Hemingway style, submitted by readers. Some of the entries are roaring funny, some sublime. All are good writing. If you are a dull old fuddy-duddy you might not like this...loosen up. It's fun.