“The Young Man and the Spree: When Hemingway was dispatched to Kingston” by Sharon
Hamilton
A review of We Were the Bullfighters by Marianne K. Miller
(Dundurn Press, 336 pages, softcover and ebook,
available from Chapters/Indigo here)
A tantalizing pronouncement appears at the start
of We Were the Bullfighters: “This is a work of fiction, except for
the parts that are true.” A debut novelist and a member of the Hemingway
Society, Marianne Miller draws upon the lives of Ernest Hemingway and a man
known as the “Jesse James of Canada,” the notorious bank robber Norman “Red”
Ryan. She crafts an adventurous and unexpected work of historical fiction that
opens a window into the brief time Papa spent working for the Toronto
Daily Star in the early 1920s. …
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