This book is awful. I greedily began reading "Garden of Eden" expecting a Hemingway novel with story lines and subplots cleverly hidden below the tip of the iceberg. I soon started to feel like my old fishing buddy hadn't really written this book. Turns out the book had been heavily edited by another hand (800 --> 240 pgs) and Hemingway had never actually released it, perhaps on purpose. This is truly one of the ugliest forgeries ever committed. What a disaster.