Their home was at Oak Park, a Chicago suburb.
They are best read a few at a time, so as to get into the flow of Hemingway's surprising sentences, but not to be overwhelmed by the high concentration of egos gathered together on one page. His father was a doctor and he was the second of six children. Each chapter is short and vignette-like, comical, bitchy and warm. This edition is punctuated with photographs, both of the manuscript and of the author and his contemporaries in Paris, including James Joyce and F Scott Fitzgerald. If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. Ezra Pound always admired the work of his friends, "which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgment", and Wyndham Lewis "just looked nasty", with eyes like "an unsuccessful rapist".
We discover that he did not get on with Ford Madox Ford, and initially failed to tell Hilaire Belloc apart from Aleister Crowley. Hemingway's recollections are at times almost gossipy. As well as providing a glimpse of her life with her "companion" Alice Toklas, Hemingway lets the reader in on some of Stein's bizarre views on male homosexualityand her thoughts on thriftiness. It is as if Hemingway had taken note of Gertrude Stein's penchant for repetition Stein is a frequent visitor to the young writer. The writing is casual and affectionate, the prose engaging and easy to read, despite his liking for sinewy sentences strung together with conjunctions. Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches.
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