HEMINGWAY, Ernest.

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The Torrents of Spring. First edition, first printing, of the author's first novel, a ruthless satire on Sherwood Anderson and his clique of American writers that Hemingway deemed pretentious. After completing the draft, Hemingway informed Ezra Pound that it was "probably unprintable but funny as hell... It's [the] first really adult thing [I] have done. Jesus Christ it is funny" (cited in Mellow, p. 318).As Hemingway suspected, the work was turned down by his publisher Horace Liveright on the grounds that its characterization of Anderson, who Liveright also published, went too far. This rejection prompted Hemingway to break his contract with Boni and Liveright and join Scribner's, which would remain his publisher for the rest of his life.

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