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To Have and Have Not
- 262 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 1937
- 54 editions
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1 About this book
This 1936 novel tells the story of an American fishing boat skipper who dabbles in a little smuggling to make ends meet. In need of money for his family the captain reluctantly becomes agrees to smuggle a group of Chinese immigrants from Cuba to Florida. This is Hemingway’s only novel to be set in the United States.
- Caribbean area
- Smugglers
- Smuggling
2 About Ernest Hemingway
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by Ernest Hemingway
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