A Moveable Feast
Ernest Hemingway's posthumous memoir returns to the Paris of the 1920s: cafés, cold flats, hunger, and the young writer's apprenticeship among Stein, Fitzgerald, Pound, and the rest. The book is as selective as memory itself—some portraits are generous, others are score-settling—and it works best when Hemingway stops performing and simply notices. A portable monument to youth, poverty, and the conviction that good sentences justify a bad apartment.Scribner's edition keeps the memoir in print in a small, readable format, appropriate for a book that sells itself as a manual for writers and functions as an elegy for a city that no longer exists. It rewards the reader who can tolerate ambition and loneliness in the same sentence, and who suspects that the best education is simply watching other people work.
