Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honor of the Passing of a Great Race," this comic novella—Ernest Hemingway's second published work, after In Our Time—wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the "great race" of writers of his generation. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets off for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, Michigan, and meets up with Yogi Johnson. The characters they meet are absurd and yet strangely familiar, and their bizarre stories form a brilliant satire on conventional fiction.