About this title: Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the twenties with moving, and sometimes caustic, portraits of friends like Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein along with fascinating reflections on his own development as a young writer. This posthumous volume was compiled from old manuscripts found at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and is, according to some critics, more fiction than fact. Hemingway, in his preface, writes: "If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction."
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780684179964ISBN:0684179962
Description: Very Good. Minor shelf wear with minor markings. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Edition: F First Paperback Printing
Binding: S Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1964
ISBN-13:9780684179964ISBN:0684179962
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Binding: Audiobook CD
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
ISBN-13:9780743564397ISBN:0743564391
Description: New. 0743564391 New, never opened, unabridged on 5 cd's, ready by James Naughton. New, never read, may have minor wear on cover from being on a retail store shelf. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Date Published: 1971
ISBN-13:9780684718040ISBN:0684718049
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean/tight/age-toned/unmarked PB. Worn/ creased cover. Orig price sticker on back cover[frpb ] Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. Classic memoir of Paris in the twenties read more
Edition: First Touchstone Edition 1996
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scribner
Date Published: 1996-05-29
ISBN-13:9780684824994ISBN:068482499X
Description: Very Good. Some edge curling on front cover and first quarter of the upper page block (slight water marking on these pages), otherwise, clean copy with tight binding and crisp pages. read more
"The most fascinating book regarding Americans in Paris after World War I and you will want to read it again and again. It's a good key to Hemingway's personality and view of the world."
"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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