'THE GARDEN OF EDEN' HEMINGWAY BOOK CAN BE APPRECIATED.(Perspective)

Byline: Bettina Stoller

THE GARDEN OF EDEN, by Ernest Hemingway; Charles Scribner's Sons; 247 pages; $18.95.

"A story of love and obsession," begun in 1946 and published 25 years after his death, Ernest Hemingway's "The Garden of Eden" is as a book which even non-Hemingway lovers can appreciate. Although the work - whose theme its writer limned as "the happiness of the Garden that a man must lose"-was "not in finished form," it was "in every significant respect ... all the author's."

Hemingway, often praised for his painstaking writing and economy of style (detractors' translation: dry and simplistic) has created a lush prose and vivid dialogue …