The book is a Companion in the figure of a Guide (something like: “Everman I will go with thee and be thy guide/ in thy most need to go by thy side.”) to Hemingway, for the common reader. Hemingway is not so easy a read. He is slyly facile. This book will expectedly provide the reader with necessary ‘gen’...information, that is...so he can smoothly sail across Hemingway’s canon.