... he had an obstacle on the form of his long-term publishing contract. In 1926, Hemingway submitted The Torrent of the Spring to Bonn & Liveright. A literary parody of his "sponsor" Sherwood Anderson's Dark Laughter and it was not a manuscript that his publishers had expected. When they refused to publish it, Hemingway was effectively released from his legal ties to them and signed ... ...

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