Like" Being There" Apr 24, 2007
by AnnieLou
Robert Gajdusek has put together a masterpiece for the viewer and the reader ! This treasure is one you must own ! The author has made a photographic study of the places visited by Hemingway, with his friends, wives and literary contacts. In the milieu one will find Gertrude Stein and her home, the several apartments he shared in Paris,the cafes he frequented with Fitzgerald and Zelda, the Luxembourg Park where he shot down pigeons so he and his small family would have a meal, and numerous other beautiful and sentimentally attached photos ! The book is unique in its approach, relating current day Parisian sites to places and people Hemingway was acquainted with ... a gem of research by an English Literature professor who is an acknowledged authority on Hemingway !, You must own this one !
