Show 4F Sunday Qgden April 13 1986 HorizonsBooks Writer acknowledges Hemingway 'trap' By DANNYE ROMINE Knighi RiOdef Newspapers Ernest Hemingway was caught in an emotionally debilitating trap a trap not of his own making and a trap at least partially 't ": """ W 4'"y"'fTv"W jn i That's ithe thrust of an insightnew book "The Young Hemingway" (Basil Blackwell $1995) a third book on Hemingway bV Michael Reynolds a North Carolina State University English pfofessor and Hemingway scholar This disease has trapped various members of the Hemingway said family fof generations Reynolds 9 in a telephone frofn his home in Raleigh NCBut he refuses to name the diiease which he believes has contributed to many deaths by suicide in the Hemingway Pijt'$ner s Wee! 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