“The Young Man and the Spree: When Hemingway was dispatched to Kingston” by Sharon Hamilton

“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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