The Garden of Eden / Hemingway

This posthumously published novel starts off with puppy love on a beach and soon thereafter, unexpectedly, a discussion of kinky sex; probably gonna drop it. One turns to Hemingway for heroism, not hedonism.  Might have been better to leave it in the drawer in which it was found. Rave  quote on the cover from Updike, no surprise there. Maybe I will pick it up again.

Can't complain about the cover art. Photo: Barnaby Hall. Design: Mary Schuck.