208 pages
English language
Published Dec. 17, 1996 by Simon & Schuster, Limited.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. It is a literary feast, brilliantly evoking the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the youthful spirit, unbridled creativity, and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
His fiction is masculine in a way I can't really enjoy. This, however, has enough wine and food and sassy descriptions of author friends (and frenemies) to gloss over his less charming qualities. It's a brief 200 pages. There is a lot of a wine, a lot of rain, and more horse racing than is prudent.
