What People Are Saying…
Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
In her debut novel, Marianne K. Miller renders a little-explored time in Hemingway’s life with the accurate eye of the Hemingway scholar she happens to be, but also with boldness and keen imagination. I turned every page of We Were the Bullfighters with great pleasure and admiration.
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of Wait Softly Brother
Intriguing. Hardboiled. Cinematic. We Were the Bullfighters is a truly fine romp of a novel!
Lee Gowan, author of The Beautiful Place
A window into Canada's role in the making of Ernest Hemingway in clear, clean prose.
Kim Echlin, author of Speak, Silence
In this wonderful story, the young Ernest Hemingway is a Toronto Daily Star reporter who feels a strange connection to legendary bank robber, Red Ryan. Miller’s expertise on Hemingway and her penetrating observations about our responsibilities to our talents makes this a must-read historical fiction in which “artists are like convicts” and people choose what they will sacrifice for freedom.
J.R. McConvey, author of Different Beasts
Marianne Miller brings a deceptively light touch to this evocative and finely researched story of a colourful moment in the life of a burgeoning literary giant. With efficient language that Hemingway would have liked, she gives us a rollicking tale of escaped convicts on the run from Kingston Pen, and the young Toronto crime reporter in pursuit of a story and a literary path. We Were the Bullfighters wonderfully captures the character of Hemingway and the atmosphere of Toronto in the 1920s.