in our time, chapter 18: "The king was working in the garden"

One True Podcast - A podcast by Mark Cirino and Michael Von Cannon - Mondays

Welcome to our eighteenth and final show celebrating the centenary of the Paris edition of Hemingway’s book of vignettes, in our time.In this quirky narrative that would come to be known as “L’Envoi” in the following year’s In Our Time collection, our narrator meets a king and a queen in the garden, leading us to a discussion of The Beatles, gardens in in our time, Hemingway’s complex use of narrative perspective, the role of America within all of the various settings of these sketches, how h...

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