Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.
Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, this new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft.
Sure to excite critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced. In the world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation, by one of the best American writers of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099909408
Number of pages: 144
Weight: 81 g
Dimensions: 178 x 110 x 8 mm
Reading A Moveable Feast is a little like sitting down to a banquet with a host of bohemian luminaries - Observer
Here is Hemingway at his best. No one has ever written about Paris in the nineteen twenties as well as Hemingway - New York Times
The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is that it does live up to its billing . . . well worth having - The Atlantic
The Paris sketches are absolutely controlled, far enough removed in time so that the scenes and characters are observed in tranquillity, and yet with astonishing immediacy - his remarkable gift - so that many have the hard brilliance of his best fiction - New York Herald Tribune
The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is that it does live up to its billing . . . well worth having - Christopher Hitchens, "The Atlantic"
Having only read a few short stories of Hemingway many years ago, I picked up this work of non-fiction not quite knowing what to expect. I wasn't disappointed as with A Moveable Feast we have a collection of... More
I wish I’d read this this before visiting Paris. Hemingway’s vivid recollections of the foreign city of his youth (though the ‘Lost Generation’ were old before there time) brilliantly captures the exciting artistic... More
Wonderful descriptions of life in Paris at that time, as you read the thoughts are very much is this fiction?
Could this be a diary account?
Loved this book, does make me wonder why I have never read Hemingway before.
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