A sensational bestseller when it appeared in 1986, The Garden of Eden is the last uncompleted novel of Ernest Hemingway, which he worked on intermittently from 1946 until his death in 1961. It is a highly readable story,if not possibly

the book he envisioned. As published it is composed of 30 short chapters running to about 70,000 words. A publisher's note advises that ''some cuts'' have been made in the manuscript, but according to Mr. Baker's biography, at one point a revised manuscript of the work ran to 48 chapters and 200,000 words, so the publisher's note is disingenuous. In an interview with The New York Times last December, a Scribners editor admitted to taking out a subplot in rough draft that he felt had not been integrated into the ''main body'' of the text, but this cut reduced the book's length by two-thirds.

Set on the Côte d'Azur in the 1920s, it is the story of a young American writer, David Bourne, his glamorous wife, Catherine, and the dangerous, erotic game they play when they fall in love with the same woman.

Set in the 1920's on the Cote d'Azur, it chronicles the honeymoon of David Bourne, a writer, and his lovely, impulsive wife Cat

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In short, the macho man of letters celebrated hunter and frequent husband, used this late novel "to take on everything people had pinned on him, his work, and his image. If all this were not intriguing enough, there were rumors that the book had gone long unpublished because Mary, Hemingway's fourth wife and widow objected to its sexual revelations. In her memoir, How It Was Mary reports that she and her husband were "androgynous" in bed; in The Garden of

Self: The Poetics of Being in the Garden of Eden. Vol. 35,

falls into his work, Hemingway's novel melts into the short story David writes -- a superb piece about a father and son hunting elephant on an African safari.

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