A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition »

The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernest Hemingway is one of the true giants of modern American literature. Hemingway's punchy, pared-down style and ability to zero in on the perfect characterizing detail of a person or scene has influenced every serious novelist of the second half of the 20th century. Everyone reads him at one time or another.

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.

Publishers Weekly

This restored version of Hemingway's posthumously published memoir has been revised to reflect the author's original intentions. The result is less a fluid narrative than an academic exercise, with the bulk of the story—Hemingway's travels, escapades, encounters with other writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald—followed by material read by his son and grandson, and some additional sketches and fragments excluded from the final draft. John Bedford Lloyd is faced with the burden of providing a passable version of Hemingway's voice and largely succeeds, but it's much more satisfying to listen to Hemingway's son Patrick, and his grandson Seán, who, in addition to sharing their own reminiscences, offer a hint of what Papa himself might have sounded like. A Scribner hardcover. (July)

Foreword Patrick Hemingway XI

Acknowledgments XV

Introduction Seán Hemingway 1

1 A Good Café on the Place St.-Michel 15

2 Miss Stein Instructs 21

3 Shakespeare and Company 31

4 People of the Seine 35

5 A False Spring 41

6 The End of an Avocation 51

7 "Une Génération Perdue" 57

8 Hunger Was Good Discipline 65

9 Ford Madox Ford and the Devil's Disciple 73

10 With Pascin at the Dôme 81

11 Ezra Pound and the Measuring Worm 87

12 A Strange Enough Ending 91

13 The Man Who Was Marked for Death 95

14 Evan Shipman at the Lilas 101

15 An Agent of Evil 109

16 Winters in Schruns 113

17 Scott Fitzgerald 125

18 Hawks Do Not Share 153

19 A Matter of Measurements 161

Additional Paris Sketches

Birth of A New School 169

Ezra Pound and His Bel Esprit 177

On Writing in the First Person 181

Secret Pleasures 183

A Strange Fight Club 193

The Acrid Smell of Lies 199

The Education of Mr. Bumby 203

Scott and His Parisian Chauffeur 209

The Pilot Fish and the Rich 213

Nada y Pues Nada 221

Fragments 227

Appendix 1 Concordance of Item Numbers for Additional Paris Sketches 237

Notes 239