To Have And Have Not

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic brutal story of Harry Morgan an honestboat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as ameans ... » 

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic brutal story of Harry Morgan an honestboat owner who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as ameans of keeping his crumbling family financially afloat. His adventures leadhim into the world of the wealthy and dissipated yachtsmen who swarm theregion and involve him in a strange and unlikely love affair.In thisharshly realistic yet oddly tender and wise novel Hemingway perceptivelydelineates the personal struggles of both the haves and the have nots andcreates one of the most subtle and moving portraits of a love affair in hisoeuvre. In turn funny and tragic lively and poetic remarkable in itsemotional impact To Have and Have Not takes literary high adventure to a newlevel. As the Times Literary Supplement observed Hemingways gift fordialogue for effective understatement and for communicating such emotions thetough allow themselves has never been more conspicuous. «