Review: 'A Moveable Feast' by Ernest Hemingway

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'A Moveable Feast' by Ernest Hemingway, 211 pages - Instagram @c_reads_books

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A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway is a memoir telling Hemingway’s experiences in Paris in the 1920s. Before much of his success with his later novels including The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway relates times of writing and making just enough money to support him, his wife Hadley, and eventually their son John. In the meantime, Hemingway recounts stories of times spent among Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald (among others). Telling his remembered stories of the artists, writers, and eccentrics of the Lost Generation, Hemingway transports readers into a time that feels like it could be yesterday.

I really liked this book and overall found it very intriguing to read. I was especially captivated during the second half of the book, in which Hemingway recalls, at great lengths, stories of his time spent with F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love The Great Gatsby and found it very interesting to hear Hemingway’s experiences with Fitzgerald, although they were definitely sometimes rather odd. Overall, I really enjoyed this memoir, and I would recommend this book to any fan of Hemingway, or anyone who wants to be transported into the heart of the Lost Generation in 1920s Paris!