The book combines two storylines, each about a different person at a pumping plant in a Michigan town. After the war, two men, both workers at a Michigan pumping plant, strive to find the perfect woman for themselves, even though neither of them accepts anything as ideal.
That is the writer Scripps O'Neil, who was having a mental breakdown after being abandoned by his wife and young daughter. He hastily married a story-telling restaurant waitress named Diana and then had to continue the chain. Struggling day with new responsibilities. But Scripps O'Neil soon leaves his new wife (as she feared when she first met him) for a waitress named Mandy, who enchants him with her trove of literary anecdotes.
That was Yogi Johnson - a veteran, an experienced worker, who made friends and was close to Scripps. Yogi Johnson struggles with insensitivity to women; eventually, he falls in love with a Native American woman.
Through his mocking view of life, his ability to recognize human thoughts and inner thoughts, Hemingway exposed the dark corners of love, art, and the search for the meaning of life in an ever-changing world. .
First published in 1926, "Spring Love" is a satirical work, mocking the "great race" of writers, describing a popular trend that Hemingway himself refused to follow.
“Spring Love” is a humorous, highly entertaining story that offers a rare glimpse into Hemingway's early career as a storyteller.
“Spring Love” includes 4 parts: Part 1 is "Black and Red Skin Laughing", part 2 is called Struggling to make a living, part 3 is "Men in war and the end of social interaction" and the last along with "Loss of a great race, the formation and shame of Americans".
When released, "Spring Love" was harshly criticized by writers, receiving many mixed reactions. The New York Times praised: "Extremely interesting... characterized by a sarcastic attitude and tears of laughter... revealing Hemingway's talent."
Author Hemingway shared: "I want readers to pay special attention to the complicated lives of the different characters in the book who later converge, in the memorable scene of that popular restaurant. When I read the chapter When he heard this to Dos Passos, he exclaimed: "Hemingway, you have created a masterpiece."
The work is loved by readers on Goodreads with 5,316 votes and 562 comments, most of which are 5-star and 4-star ratings.
Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) was a famous American writer and journalist. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1953 for the novel "The Old Man and the Sea"; Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's first two published works were 3 Stories and 10 Poems (Three Stories and Ten Poems) and "In Our Time", but it was the satirical novel "Spring Love" (The Torrents of Spring) has helped his name become more widely known.
