A Moveable Feast

by Ernest Hemingway, Seán Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway

Book Overview

"There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other." --Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway's classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s remains one of his most beloved works. Filled with tender memories of his first wife Hadley and their son Jack; irreverent portraits of literary luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; and insightful recollections of his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068482499X
• ISBN13: 9780684824994
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Addictive and Funny

Absolutely wonderful and highly recommended. Hemingway is hilarious in parts of this. Don't plan on doing much else once you start reading it. You will be hooked!

Read it before your next trip to Paris

We did a walking tour of "Hemingway's Paris." I read A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition afterwards and wished I had read it before. However, it gives us a reason to go back! The restored edition contains essay not included in the first edition, which were some of my favorite.

Fabulous reading.

My favorite Hemingway work to date. It's haunting, beautiful, spartan, and addicting. "A Moveable Feast" is one of those books that you keep on your bedside nightstand for when you can't sleep at night. It's a book you keep in your pocket or your bag for when you're traveling and in an unfamiliar place. As close as Hemingway gets to autobiography - and it's heartbreaking, gratifying, and complex all at once. Don't miss this one. It's like finding an old friend again.

Two orders of Cafe Creme in Paris with Hemingway

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!