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William Campbell mantenía una carrera de persecución con un espectáculo de variedades desde Pittsburgh. En una carrera de persecución, en las carreras de bicicletas, los corredores salen a intervalos iguales uno tras otro. Corren muy deprisa porque generalmente la carrera se limita a una distancia breve, y si pierden velocidad otro corredor que vaya detrás y mantenga el ritmo acabará cogiéndolos. En cuanto un corredor es adelantado queda fuera de la carrera y debe bajarse de la bicicleta y salir de la pista.

Praised for its simple and precise language, this book made Hemingway one of the most promising writers of the period. Contains the In Our Time vignettes, “Indian Camp”, “The Doctor and The Doctor’s Wife”, “The End of Something”, “The Three Day Blow”, “The Battler”, “Soldier’s Home”, Mister and Misses Eliot”, “Cat in the Rain”, “Out of Season”, “Cross Country Snow”, “My Old Man”, and “Big Two Hearted River”. 

Originally published in October 1927, the second short-story collection published by Pulitzer Prize winner and Nobel Laureate Ernest Hemingway contains fourteen stories. Themes and subject matter range from bullfighting, boxing, and prizefighting to divorce, infidelity, and death. Critics at the time praised Hemingway's concise language and powerful prose.

The story follows the lives of a group of people living during the 1920s, in Paris, mainly. Many of them had lived through the hardships and horrors of the First World War, and this lent a kind of manic energy to their social lives and relationships, as though there was not enough time and maximum "living" had to be squeezed into as short a time as possible.