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This intelligent study of the complex issue of gender in Hemingway's works is a fine addition to Hemingway scholarship and a pleasure to read. Not only do Scholes and Comley deal incisively and comprehensively with the Hemingway text (comprising both published and unpublished material) as well as with the burgeoning mass of Hemingway biography, they do so with clever good humor. One character, for example, "frees himself ... from the Mummy's curse." The publication of a heavily edited version of Hemingway's unfinished novel The Garden of Eden (CH, Sep'86) presented scholars with a new vision of Hemingway's fascination with androgyny and lesbianism. Scholes and Comley, in exploring this and other works, extend their analysis to include Hemingway's interest in male homosexuality and miscegenation: "These motifs--sex across racial boundaries and sex that violates cultural taboos--are the warp and woof of sexuality in the Hemingway Text." Much fine criticism and biography of Hemingway, such as Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story (CH, Sep'69) and Bernice Kert's The Hemingway Women (CH, Nov'83) have dealt with this complex author's attitude toward the women in his life and his books. This volume carries the analysis to a new level of sophistication. Academic and general audiences. B. H. Leeds; Central Connecticut State University