Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

In A Parallel Universe, Papa Ended Up Writing Lurid Grisham-Like Thrillers Involving Colons, Well-Hung Cows and Virile Walter Mitty Types

Sun-Times: "Hemingway scholar J. Gerald Kennedy, who has a copy, guffawed out loud as he paraphrased the story over the phone. The main character kills the bull with his bare hands. But the hapless hero loses part of his entrails -- his duodenum ends up in the sand.

'"'It's pretty typical of the kind of after-hours parody Hemingway was writing in Paris in the mid-20s,'' said Kennedy, a professor at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, La. 'It's not great literature. He's still a year away from writing The Sun Also Rises.'"