- Paperback: 211 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD; 1st Scribner Classic/Collier Ed edition (30 Sep 1987)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0020519605
- ISBN-13: 978-0020519607
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (56 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,905,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"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"
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"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"
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48 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first read this book a few years ago and though I enjoyed it wasn't moved by it. A couple of years later on my first trip to Paris I decided to take the book with me. Somehow the book took on a new life. I could visit the locations described and appreciate the descriptions of people and events. I fell in love with Paris, Hemingway and the Lost Generation all because of this book. I now have quite a collection of books describing the 1920s and 1930s in Paris and have bought a prized first edition of this book. I strongly recommend this book to readers particularly those visiting Paris. Five Stars because there are only five.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL. After this novel, I would do anything to be able to have a coffee with Hemingway and his expatriates at the Closerie de Lillas cafe. The most astounding part is that this novel is TRUTH, maybe colored with nostalgia but are amazingly touching portraits of some of the greatest literary giants of the century. When I put the novel down, I felt like I KNEW Hemingway. There were so many times he would make me laugh out loud or sigh with regret! I've read a great deal of his more reknown novels, but this novel is tied for my favorite novel of his along with Farewell to Arms. It's inconcievable that such extraordinarily talented people collected in a few Parisian cafes in a few years, and they were all acquaintences. What an idea! His stories of F.Scott Fitzgerald were especially illuminating and hilarious, but my favorites were: Ford Madox Ford & the Devil's Disciple, Birth of a New School ( especially funny ), With Pascin at the Dome, & Ezra Pound and the Bel Esprit. Hemingway's wit and sarcasm are so real, they leap off the pages and he seems to be engaging you in conversation. This novel really opened up my eyes to my perspective of Hemingway, most of his novels are stories that are semi-autobiographical so we have to decipher truth from plot. There is no need to figure out what is Hemingway--because it is ALL Hemingway!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Memory can be unreliable, and it would be too fussy to criticize Hem's memoirs over little inaccuracies. This book is in fact a brutally honest legacy and incredibly intimate. It is amazing to think that almost forty years elapsed between the events described and their being written. The real impact of the book is that it makes you feel you've made a close friendship with the author. It creates longings in you; we would love to have lived in Paris at that time and to have encountered all those artists (Joyce, Pound, Pascin). The attention to detail brings it to life; you feel that you can hear the woodpigeons and smell the pastries.
Hemingway operates at the level of `feeling'. He says much about his likes and dislikes, his addiction to gambling, his lack of confidence and his efforts to like even the most unlike-able characters (most especially Ford Maddox Ford). Hemingway has left the world a genuinely valuable legacy with these snapshots of 1920s Paris life and it is a book you'll want to read again and again.
Hemingway operates at the level of `feeling'. He says much about his likes and dislikes, his addiction to gambling, his lack of confidence and his efforts to like even the most unlike-able characters (most especially Ford Maddox Ford). Hemingway has left the world a genuinely valuable legacy with these snapshots of 1920s Paris life and it is a book you'll want to read again and again.
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Amazing
My first Hemingway and most certainly not my last. After many years of hatred for Paris, this book has somehow convinced me I need to give it a second chance. Read more
Published 1 month ago by P. Caudell
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4.5 stars. It's difficult to not give anything by Hemingway 5 stars, but the reason I am doing it is not so much that there is anything wrong with this book as that I can't help... Read more
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Midnight in Paris? Take a few years instead.
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A Moveable Feast
It is in good condition and as new book, but it is the old version that I haven't noticed before.
Published 3 months ago by Alice
Great for getting closer to Hemingway, but at times annoying
This book gives you a very detailed image of what it was like to be Hemingway in Paris in those years... Read more
Published 4 months ago by lucy.sunshine
Interesting contents, terrible edition!
This is an interesting take on life in Paris in the Twenties, although how objective Hemingway is as an observer is open to question, and actually, I wanted to know a lot more than... Read more
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book for the ages - Paris, youth, and interesting times
I first read this book in 1975, as a youth in college with so many aspirations for art. It was so stimulating that I was inspired to live in Paris, which I found to my utter... Read more
Published 9 months ago by rob crawford
a very entertaining little book
I bought this book for something to read while visiting paris its a short book but very well written and observed. Some of the incidents made me laugh out loud. Very insightful. Read more
Published 9 months ago by dave
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Watch Woody Allens "Midnight In Paris" a film treat in connection with Hemingways book, you'll love the film. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Stephen Febers
Bienvenu to the Wonderful World of Ernest Hemimgway
Why are Americans so crazy about Paris? One of the reasons is Ernest Hemingway and this little book with its name dropping and taut style that takes no prisoners. Read more
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