#ReadThis #AMoveableFeast by #ErnestHemingway Earns #WhomYouKnow 's #HighestRecommendation
We have already told you that PBS has a Hemingway special coming up:
We watched it, twice.
Loved.
You MUST read all his books before you see the special!
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast." (xii foreword)
-Ernest Hemingway
What could be better than April in Paris?
Since no one can travel the best thing you can do is both go to Paris and go back in time with Hemingway AND FITZGERALD, an amazing added bonus, and raise a glass and party like it's 1920-something! This book is just what the Easter Bunny ordered. Also, this worked for timing: "The complexity of a moveable feast lies in the calculation of the calendar date for Easter in a given year..."(xiii in foreword).
Previously on Whom You Know, Hemingway has earned accolades:
The Old Man and the Sea
The Hemingway Stories:
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A Farewell To Arms
The Sun Also Rises
A Moveable Feast is an extraordinary collection of snippets from Hemingway's life compiled after his death with a concentration on his young days in Paris when he was just getting started as writer. Inspirational, interesting and incredible, this is a firsthand look at how a master is made from the man himself. Though we loved the story of the Old Man and the Sea so much and its word choice, structure, verbiage and overall effect, A Moveable Feast's autobiographical nature is priceless and a total must-read for all Americans and anyone who likes to read or write.
We loved it in its entirety and if you like James Joyce, Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein you will be truly entertained by Hemingway as he regales his firsthand experiences with each. What is BEST are his quintessential interactions and friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald and in tandem they are our absolute favorite. All Peachy has to say is she was born too late! The best way to experience these escapades is to crack this winner open and take a trip between the pages.
This restored edition includes a foreword by Patrick Hemingway and an introduction by Sean Hemingway. The photography is also terrific.
A Moveable Feast has earned Whom You Know's Highest Recommendation.
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now, this 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 grandson of the author, Seán Hemingway, editor of this edition, the book 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 literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.
Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
