Hemingways posthumous novel is set in Africa and involves an American man, his wife, and his African mistress. Patrick Hemingway, the novelists son, compiled this text from the 200,000-word journal Hemingway kept of his Kenya tour in 1953 that seems to have been a self-destructive blend of safari, adultery, and hype. The resulting novel is an idyllic version of this tour, blending fact and fiction--Hemingways last attempt to burnish his image as a great hunter, a great lover, and a sophisticated man of the world.