I like Hemingway and I love Paris, so this book was interesting to me. Towards the end, some of the accounts seemed repetitive, but I guess that's understandable considering Hemingway never really prepared it to be published.
The book is usually passed off as a memoir, but towards the end, he writes about the process of writing in second-person so stories sound believable and make the reader think they really happened- which seems like his way of explaining that some of the "memories" are contrived.
The book is usually passed off as a memoir, but towards the end, he writes about the process of writing in second-person so stories sound believable and make the reader think they really happened- which seems like his way of explaining that some of the "memories" are contrived.
Hemingway's restored memoir of life in Paris in the 1920's when he was becoming recognized as a writer. Interesting because he was then in love with his first wife, Hadley, and speaks fondly and warmly of her. Also probes Hemingway's unusual friendship with F. Scott Fitzgerald, the better known of the two at that time.
THe story of Hemingway's life in Paris for 5 years from about 1922-1927 with his first wife Hadley who he greatly regretted leaving for his shallow 2nd wife Pauline.
