About this title: Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416591313ISBN:1416591311
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Binding: Audio CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743598170ISBN:0743598172
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Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416591313ISBN:1416591311
Description: New. Published posthumously in 1964, "A Moveable Feast" remains one of Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries and insightful recollections of his own... read more
Edition: Unabridged
Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780743598170ISBN:0743598172
Description: New. Literary icon Ernest Hemingway's memoir, "A Moveable Feast, "is now available as the author intended for the first ever in this restored edition! read more
Edition: First Edition (1st printing)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781416591313ISBN:1416591311
Description: As New in As New jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing). The Restored edition. Foreward By Patrick Hemingway. Edited and with an inytroduction by Sean Hemingway. read more
"'A Moveable Feast' is for stargazers everywhere. If you're one of those who dotes on brilliant, famous people and if, in particular, you dote on members of 'The Lost Generation,' this is the book for you. It shows you what your idols look like when they're drunk, staggering around in their underwear.
Fans of Ernest will love 'A Moveable Feast.' Fans of Scott and Zelda may hate it. Fans of Gertrude will - - - - Well there's no telling how they'll feel about it, which was always a problem, even for poor old Gert. The only character in the whole set who gets away clean is the lady owns the bookstore and binds up busted heads. Highly recommended."
"I read the first edition of this book years ago. Hemingway wrote this "fiction" near the end of his life. His writing seems like he learned English as a second language -- sort of stilted. "A Moveable Feast" is self serving. On page p. 158 Hemingway says that he did not show his manuscript of "The Sun Also Rises" to F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scott Donaldson's "Hemingway vs. Fitzgerald: The Rise and Fall of a Literary Friendship" says that he did and Fitzgerald's edits are proof. There needs to be more annotation. I know that the chapter "The Pilot Fish and the Rich" has something to do with Gerald and Sara Murphy and that Hemingway blamed them for his break up with Hadley, his first wife, because they didn't consider her "good enough" for Hemingway. There are several terrific books about the Murphys who both were fascinating and tragic:
"Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story," Amanda Vaill
"Letters from the Lost Generation: Gerald and Sara Murphy and Friends," Linda Patterson; Gerald Murphy, and Sara Murphy Miller
"Sara and Gerald: Villa America and After," Honoria Donnelly and Richard N. Billings
What did I learn from this book? If you're going to write memoir, always call it "fiction," and if you're going to lie, don't leave a paper trail."
"I've never been much of a fan of Hemingway. I understand how his lean prose can appeal to people, but I'm more of a dense, rich Victorian melodrama sort of gal. But I can appreciate his work in small doses, which is what you get in this restored version of his Paris memoirs. Each chapter works as a vignette and as a part of a larger vision. The spareness of his language works with this sort of reflection, since memoirs and journalism aren't terribly far apart, stylistically speaking. There are a few sentences here that run on almost like Woolf, that are absolutely pure and true. This is my main issue with Hemingway - moments of brilliant prose do exist in his works, but you have to dig through to get them. My second issue with Hemingway - his characters - is somewhat averted here in that he's talking about some of the greatest literary characters to ever exist (Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald etc.). While this work hasn't really changed my mindset on Hemingway, it's still worth the time."
In a series of wonderfully evocative vignettes Hemingway captures day-to-day life in Paris where he lived with his first wife Hadley in the early 1920's. Despite being very poor he paints an irresistibly appealing portrait of that period. He was energized and optimistic, a very disciplined writer who appeared to relish his struggles to survive and make a name for himself. In twenty chronologically organized chapters he captures the Bohemian ethos of Paris; provides insights to his writing process and style preferences; reveals his penchant for boxing, gambling, bicycle racing and skiing; specifies what he ate and drank on innumerable occasions; describes interactions with his friends and acquaintances and sometimes cruelly betrays them by revealing confidences and intimate details of their lives. His tone is both high spirited and mean spirited. With the exception of gambling he seems mostly unaware of/unconcerned about his personal excesses."
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