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Padura Fuentes One Of Cuba'S Bestknown And Most Widely Acclaimed Writers Has Written A Firstrate Detective Story Set Against The Backdrop Of Hemingway'S Cuba. Part Fascinating Exam ination Of Hemingway The Man In His Trying Final Years And Part Nifty Postmodern Procedural, Adios Hemingway Will Engross Hemingway Fans While Keeping Them In Suspense Until The Final Pages.When The Skeletal Remains Of A Man Brought Down By Two Buckshots Forty Years Earlier Surface On The Havana Estate Of Ernest Hemingway, Writer, Drinker, And Excop Mario Conte Reluctantly Accepts A Reinstatement To Investigate. As The Truth Of The Night Of October 3, 1958, Slowly Reveals Itself, Conte Must Come To Terms With His Idealistic Memory Of Papa Hemingway On Cubas Sundrenched Docks From When He Was A Child Tagging Along With His Grandfather.Padura Fuentes Weaves Contes World With That Of Hemingways Cuba Four Decades Earlier, A Period Marking The Beginning Of Hemingways Decline. In The Heatandrum Haze, The Eras And Personas Begin To Merge In This Evocative, Compelling Novel. Show more