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A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, "The Garden of Eden" is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. Set on the Cote d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman. "A lean, sensuous narrative...taut, chic, and strangely contemporary," "The Garden of Eden" represents vintage Hemingway, the master "doing what nobody did better." (R. Z. Sheppard, "Time") *** �When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous.� �Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.� �Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.� �You're awfully dark, brother," he said. "You don't know how dark.� �He felt as though he were hailing a ship.� *** "A miracle, a fresh slant on the old magic." (John Updike, "The New Yorker") This is one of Hemingway's most fascinating character studies, and like all his heroines in all of his books, I sort of fell in love with her. (Sylvia, goodreads.com) I could read this over and over and never get tired of it. It has been at the top of my favorite books list for a very long time. It's simple and it's sparse and yet it speaks volumes about love and sex and men and women and our humanity and our imperfection. It's posthumous and even though it's different from everything else he wrote, it's still Papa. (Jessie, goodreads.com)