Remarkable, startling, disquieting
Spectator
Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced
New York World
Hemingway captures atmosphere by reticence and breathes life into his characters by pages left unsaid... It is American; it is literature; and it is a first novel by a genius
Evening News
It is a truly gripping story, told in a lean, hard, athletic narrative prose that puts more literary English to shame . . . This novel is unquestionably one of the events of an unusually rich year in literature
New York Times (1926)