Family secrets: the absent mother and father -- Hemingway's sun, Vonnegut's night: the spoils of war -- Duty dance with death: A farewell to arms and Slaughterhouse-five -- Spiritual manifestos: Breakfast of champions, Death in the afternoon, and Green hills of Africa -- From Jailbird to canary bird: To have and have not and Jailbird -- Anima and animus in For whom the bell tolls and Slapstick -- A soldier's confessions: Across the river and into the trees and Hocus pocus -- Now it's women's turn: The rescue of Eurydice -- A literary farewell: Timequake and Under kilimanjaro.
