Author: Ernest Hemingway
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p align=center text-align left Published for the first time as Ernest Hemingway intended, one of the great writers most enduring works his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingways most beloved works. Since Hemingways 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, Ernests sole surviving son, and an introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Sean 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... Amazon.com ReviewIn the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesnt matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the 20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every cafe table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip fragrant, colorless alcohols and chat admid her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.Hemingway beautifully captures the fragile magic of a special time and place, and he manages to be nostalgic without hitting any false notes of sentimentality. This is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy, he concludes. Originally published in 1964, three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast was the first of his posthumous books and remains the best. --David LaskinReviewThe 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 Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingways most enduring works. Since Hemingways 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, Ernests sole surviving son, and an Introduction by grandson of the author, SeAn 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 Hemingways 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.Amazon.com ReviewPLEASE NOTE THE EBOOK EDITION DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. h2In Hemingways Own Handh2Take a look at two consecutive handwritten manuscript pages from Chapter 2, Miss Stein Instructs. (Ernest Hemingway Collection, Manuscripts, A Moveable Feast, Item 131, pp. 3-4, at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA.)Read Page 3 (PDF)Read Page 4 (PDF)From Publishers WeeklyThis restored version of Hemingways posthumously published memoir has been revised to reflect the authors original intentions. The result is less a fluid narrative than an academic exercise, with the bulk of the storyHemingways travels, escapades, encounters with other writers like F. Scott Fitzgeraldfollowed by material read by his son and grandson, and some additional sketches and fragments excluded from the final draft. John Bedford Lloyd is faced with the burden of providing a passable version of Hemingways voice and largely succeeds, but its much more satisfying to listen to Hemingways son Patrick, and his grandson Sean, who, in addition to sharing their own reminiscences, offer a hint of what Papa himself might have sounded like. A Scribner hardcover. (July) Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.