Hemingway short story about racing

[Half Smoke]

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the story is entitled "My Old Man," and it's a great one IMO

the father of the the boy telling the story is a steeplechase jock in Europe

and Hemingway really knows racing__________backwards and forward

there are some ethnic slurs in the boy's narration which I hope don't offend anybody - of course he was writing in a different era

it can be read in full at the link__________enjoy:



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https://americanliterature.com/autho...ory/my-old-man



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[Tom]

Thanks!

[burnsy]

Yeah , he knew a lot and followed Bull Fighting too. It was a different world back then so he pretty much spews ethnic stuff in almost all of his writing. Just like my Grandpa when he was around . If you haven’t had the tour of his house in Key West I highly recommend it. The room where he wrote is in tact. There are descendants of his five toed cat that they keep there. By his own admission he was glad he lived across the street from the Light House. When he had too many on Duvall Street, he would stumble home following the light . Lol