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This is a terrific book. It fits like a bright cafe saucer neatly into the impressive stack of Hemingway books so well begun by Charles Fenton, Philip Young, and Carlos Baker. Hemingway: The Toronto Years is all book and no padding. In it, William Burrill, a columnist with Toronto's eye Weekly, for the first time shows that Hemingway's Toronto years were as important to the writer's development as those spent in Michigan or Paris. Certainly it was at The Toronto Star, not the Kansas City Star, that he learned to be a first - rate journalist. He also experimented with effects and observations that were later to turn up in his stories. Who would have thought that the Big Two - Hearted River was really Ontario's Credit River in fancy dress?