Martin Sproale is a mild, conventional assistant postmaster living in a small English coastal town, the only exceptional thing about him being his obsession with Ernest Hemingway. This is confined harmlessly enough to an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything about the man and to living in a room surrounded by Hemingway memorabilia. But when an ambitious young outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster over Martin and starts to transform the friendly local post office for privatization and the high-tech challenges of the 21st century, Martin is faced with a choice--to go along with the drastic changes, or to be like his hero and fight for what he believes in. Egged on by an American scholar, Ruth Kohler, who is living nearby while completing a book in Hemingway, Martin allows his obsession to take over more and more of his life, culminating in a final, reckless act of revenge against the ruthless modernizers.
- ISBN10 0312205503
- ISBN13 9780312205508
- Publish Date 23 June 1999 (first published 3 April 1995)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 April 2016
- Publish Country US
- Imprint St Martin's Press
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 280
- Language English