The Ambulance Drivers—Santa Fe New Mexican

Another review to share for James McGrath Morris’ The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War. This time in The Santa Fe New Mexican. A selection from the review:

“Unlike Dos Passos, Hemingway had no interest in pondering [war’s] causes, worrying about its conduct, or even being bothered by the banality of military life,” Morris writes. “Dos Passos wanted to write about war to end it. In Hemingway’s mind, war was inevitable and a man was measured by it, as he had been. Literature could capture the experience, not change it.”