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- Title
Nuns Help Hemingway with Tale and Piece of Tail.
- Authors
Hays, Peter L.
- Abstract
This essay explores Hemingway's treatment for a spiral fracture at St. Vincent's Hospital, which was staffed by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth after a 1930 car crash in Billings, Montana. It details the surgical intervention to repair the fracture, which used sutures made of kangaroo tail and Hemingway's subsequent fourteen-week recovery. The essay also explores how Hemingway's stay at the hospital influenced his short story, "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio."
- Subjects
MONTANA; NUNS; HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; TRAFFIC accidents; TREATMENT of fractures; SUTURES; KANGAROOS
- Publication
Hemingway Review, 2022, Vol 42, Issue 1, p96
- ISSN
0276-3362
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hem.2022.0021