This book is simply great. Good chow and lots of neat pictures and information about Hemingway. I use it as a gift and makes it easy.

If you enjoy eating and drinking well, this book will show you how to go about it. The bar recipes are fantastic and the accompanying stories and anecdotes provide crackling fodder for dinner discussions. What fun to be able to recreate meals that you've read about - your own moveable feast! The gluhwein recipe alone will keep you warm and fuzzy all winter. I happily recommend this book to all, Hemingway enthusiasts and critics alike!

The thing I liked most about this book is the way Boreth uses the life of Hemingway to bring together so many fascinating places, tastes, people, and ideas. It gives you a wonderful sense of a great life, and some tasty recipes to boot.

Hemingway lovers and haters will be able to unite over this superlative collection of schlock Papa. The stories are universally strong, including some real gems by the likes of E.B. White, George Plimpton, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well as a host of uproariously funny takeoffs by less well known authors. I nearly fell over myself laughing in the bookstore when I picked up a copy and randomly started reading. Highest recommendation.

I had only read one Hemingway novel but that was enough for me to laugh at every single story. Makes a perfect pick-me-up gift for anybody struggling with a Hemingway assignment or paper...

The pages were filled to the margins with Bad Hemingway, and it was good.

Michael Reynolds's Hemingway, The Paris Years is the second volume of his five volume life of Hemingway. Reynolds's takes pains in his introduction to thank and praise Carlos Baker for his Hemingway biography, but Reynolds's work has become acknowledged as the greater of the two. This volume deals with Hemingway's Paris years from 1921 to 1926, the same period that Hemingway describes in his short memoir, "A Moveable Feast."

The twenty-two year old Hemingway is newly married to his first wife Hadley and has been advised by his American literary mentor, Sherwood Anderson, to go live and work among the writers and artist of Paris' Left Bank expatriate pack.

Reynolds present Hemingway's Paris years in detailed chronological order. He occasionally goes into greater detail than is appropriate for good story telling but the book reads for the most part like a novel. Hemingway takes a trip to Italy to visit his WWI haunts in Milan and the riverbank where he was wounded. Hemingway's early work as a reporter for the Toronto Star takes him to some of the major political events of the 1920's. He interviews Mussolini mere months before he seizes power in Italy and attends a 1922 Genoa conference that is eerily similar to the 2001 Genoa conference. He takes exciting bullfighting trips to Spain wherein the development of Hemingway aficion for bullfighting is well described. The details of Hemingway's climb up the literary pecking order are made clear. He is being referred to as the best young American novelist by friendly critics years before he has published a novel.

The painstaking process by which Hemingway fashioned his early, classic short stories is described in you-are-there detail. The pugnacious Hemingway picks fights with perceived rivals, both with fisticuffs and with his writing. The long and difficult negotiation by which his first publisher, Boni and Liveright publish his first widely available book, "In Our Time," is well described. It seems that "In Our Time" was published almost more as a favor to Sherwood Anderson and Hemingway's other literary fans than on it's own commercial merit. Hemingway's dissatisfaction with Boni and Liveright's efforts for him is described as well as Fitzgerald's efforts to bring Hemingway to Scribner's. Hemingway writes the short satiric novella "The Torrents of Spring" to force Boni and Liveright to break their contract with him and then gives his first real novel, "The Sun Also Rises, " to Scribner's.

The book ends with Hemingway on his way home to Paris from New York in winter 1926. He has successfully broken his contract with his first publisher and signed a new contract with Scribner's.

I sometimes feel sorry for the biographers of great men. In this case, the subject, Hemingway, lived his larger-than-life life to the fullest, grabbing all the gusto, having his adventures and love affairs while the poor biographer is trapped in his academic cocoon, poring over old papers, scribbling in notebooks, devoting his own life to writing about someone else's life. Such is the lonely world of biographers. Those thought aside, "Hemingway, The Paris Years" is a one fifth of monumental achievement by Reynolds and a must read for any fan of the great man.

Mr. Reynolds continues his bio of EH with the writer's first marriage and Paris years of the early 1920's. Reynolds is excellent in his narrative of EH's developing literary career. The trial and errors of the early stories, the rejection and success of getting the stories published is well told. EH's social life in Paris is well analyzed. Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound are part of EH's life for short periods that EH makes the most of. His life as a reporter and editor are well told too. His life as husband and father is secondary to his work as a writer. Mr. Reynold's skill as a biographer has improved since the first volume. He is less judgemental and lets EH's nasty side reveal itself thru incident rather than excessive criticism. A first rate bio.

This book is wonderfully (and obviously pain-stakingly) crafted. It reads like a novel, but it illuminates Hemingway's personality through subtle, and not so subtle, touches. This is an excellent telling of the early years in Paris and Toronto and of how Hemingway taught himself to write. I especially enjoyed the details of the Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford relationship regarding the Transatlantic publication, and I also enjoyed learning better what Stein gave to Hemingway's writing -- but overall I enjoyed the book evenly from start to finish. This book can stand alone. It was the first one in the series that I'd read. I look forward to reading the others.

Burgess on Hemingway! The stylist and the lexicologist! The sensualist and the cynic! The adventurer and the academic! Could there be a more apt pairing in terms of literary exploration? Doubtful - and delightful. Anthony Burgess is, of course, in his own right a powerful pusher of boundaries, a lover of Joyce, of watershed origins, of deckle-edged literature - and a fine storyteller to boot. Who better to tell, dispassionately and meaningfully, the story of a writer whose literary luminance so often obliterates his humanness? This is a short book, really just a Hemingway primer - but one of the first order. It is crammed with eloquent understanding and gentle anecdote, a bedside companion for insomniacs, to propel them back to Carlos Baker (for detail) and Hotcher (for heart): and of course, most of all, back to those terrific humanistic tales that wriggle and strive for a secular code of meaning in an odd world. The book is doubly worthy: as introduction to Hem, and to Burgess. Those who are new to his acquaintanceship will relish a deep, joyful oeuvre.

Ernest Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" allows the reader to experience life on the other side of the page, so to speak, the life of the authors. Recognizing the author as a person, as having gone through the human experience, is an important aspect of the reading experience. It removes the barrier between the reader and the author thus allowing a better communication between the text and the reader. The author no longer seems distant and extraordinary, so the reader is able to absorb the book on his own terms, as one discusses life with a respected friend. Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" is particularly well-written, for Hemingway (as usual) does not talk down to the reader but rather includes the reader in his life as a matter of course. A truly remarkable bit of literature...

The book provides excellent insight into Hemingway's life without wasting a word. Every Hemingway fan should read it.

"For decades, Professor Robert E. Gajdusek has crafted compelling interpretations that have helped to define the true cutting edge of Hemingway studies. With inerrant global positioning, Gajdusek situates Hemingway at the center of the multiplicitous richness of modernism. Through scrupulous attention to the text, in rare combination with inspired (and inspiring) arcs of the imagination, Gajdusek gives the reader an authentic portrait of Hemingway as the quintessential artist, the maker, the creator in the timeless country of art and the human spirit."

-- H.R. Stoneback
H.R. Stoneback is director of numerous Hemingway conferences, former director of the Hemingway Society, A leading Hemingway and Faulkner scholar; author of scores of critical studies of Hemingway; Professor & Director of Graduate Studies in English at SUNY-New Paltz; Former Director of the American Center for Students and Artists in Paris; Author of Singing the Springs, For We Have Had Song in These Places, Cartographers of the Deus Loci, his latest book is Cafe Millennium and Other Poems.

"To see gathered here so many of Robert E. Gajdusek's innovative and provocative essays, written during the last two decades, demonstrates how profoundly Gajdusek has changed the way we read Hemingway. Through his artfully rendered and intricate essays Gajdusek has compelled readers to sidestep the stereotypical myths about Hemingway's life and art so as to get to the heart of Hemingway's sophisticated artistry. Hemingway in His Own Country will reawaken its readers to the lyrical and metaphorical precision of Hemingway's writing and to the important recognition that Hemimgway's prose is, after all, not so simple as many had supposed. What a boon to have this remarkable book that will serve as a kind of In Our
Time for future Hemingway scholarship...I was astonished to
realize the extent of his work-both wide ranging and highly influential in Hemingway scholarship. He truly led the way in changing the way we read Hemingway. It was daring on his part, and he did it with flair. Notre Dame Press should be commended for publishing this astonishing collection. Again, congratulations on the publication of this superb collection."

-- Linda Miller:
Professor of English at Penn State Abington, her book Letters from
the Lost Generation will be coming out as we speak in a new and expanded edition with University Press of Florida. An ongoing Board Member of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation and currently Board member of The Hemingway Society, she has written on and spoken about Hemingway in national and international venues.

"Far and away the most comprehensive and compelling collection of Hemingway essays to appear, and will undoubtedly be for future single-author Hemingway collections what Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story has been and continues to be for Hemingway biographers. In these twenty-six remarkable essays Gajdusek out-ranges Hemingway's topical critics, and by sticking to the texts, out-mines his psychological probers. Hemingway readers have waited a long time for such a perceptive and incisive critical gathering. This is a double blue ribbon book!" --

Donald Junkins:
Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Director of the graduate writing program at the U of Mass, Amherst; winner of the John Masefield and Jenny Tane awards and 2 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowships. Author of The Agamenticus Poems, Crossing by Ferry, The Sunfish and the Partridge, The Contemporray World Poets (anthlogy) Playing For Keeps, Journey to the Corrida and Director, IX International Hemingway Conference, Bimini, 2000.

Michael Palin writes one of the ultimate coffee table books for the Hemingway afficionado. When Palin says how he admired Hemingway when he was a boy growing up in Sheffield, England, this introductory homage is itself nearly worth the price of the book. We follow Palin as he travels to and writes about each of the pivotal places and people in Hemingway's life (including Illinois, Michigan, Paris, Spain, Key West, Cuba and Idaho). The passages are accompanied by photographs from Basil Pao, Palin's longtime collaborator

Palin describes what events happened in each place that make it significant to the Hemingway fan, but he also describes how each place is still interesting today: the running of the bulls in Pamplona, for instance, or the Hemingway look alike contest in Key West. In that sense, this is also a great travel book. It's clearly written with admiration for the author, but never cloyingly so. Palin's prose is measured, and he works in some of his celebrated humor. This book would make a great gift for the Hemingway fan in your life.

I haven't read much of Hemingway but this book makes for a good read. Well illustrated throughout you get some flavour of his life, and what his old haunts are like now (some have changed for the worst unfortunately). It covers large chunks of Europe, the Caribbean fringes and Africa. It's given me a lot of unusual travel ideas for myself.

It's also given me a great desire to read Hemingway (he's popular stateside but not so much here.)

One note of caution though for USAns... some of it involves Cuba, so they can't visit all the sites. :(

This book is the companion to the BBC series which visited many of the places Hemingway wrote about and lived. This television series was done to commemorate Hemingway's 100th birthday. I had been uninterested in Hemingway prior to reading this book. Palin's engaging style changed that for me. Palin has a passion for Hemingway that is infectious. I was prompted to read The Sun Also Rises, The Dangerous Summer and Death in the Afternoon by Palin's telling of Hemingway's passion for bullfighting. I also visited Pamplona for the 2000 San Fermin festival, one year after the one described in the book.

This book would be an excellent travel narrative even without the Hemingway connection. There are, besides the chapter about bullfighting and Pamplona, entertaining accounts of duck hunting near Venice, Key West nightlife, sportfishing in Havana, and taxidermy in Idaho. Palin's writing style is like having an old friend telling you an interesting story. The photography is excellent as well. Highly recommended.

i never knew hemingway was a poet. but i'm glad he was, since several of these poems are excellent, and most are good (and quite a few bitter). i'm not surprised hemingway's poems are good since it would seem to fit his style of write, every sentence, every word important.

I read this short volume without a clear conception of what Hemingway's poetry would turn out to be. I'd always heard it said that Hemingway's economy in his prose rendered paragraphs into a poetry of their own. But the dynamics of poetry are somewhat different from those of prose: While giving one untrammeled use of the English language (heck, you can even be forgiven a few perversions of grammar), you have to have an ear for meter, let the cadence exalt each verse into a brief apotheosis, where prose writing could take twice as much time to shoot its load. Thankfully, Hemingway was as brilliant (and troubled) a poet as he was a novelist.

Hemingway's early poetry is a good indication of what he was soon to create. From the facetious poems about baseball and high school track teams mimicking the verse of his idols,to the smart allecky "Blank Verse" (written as an imposed classroom assignment), we get a good sense of the wry, often witty Hemingway that was to emerge in parts of books such as the Sun Also Rises. Yes, despite the suicide, despite the preoccupation with war and violent sports (bullfight, anyone?) Hemingway had a knack for giving life to people tersely, but with all the effect that a more prolix writer could. (Take the descriptions of Jake drinking wine from a native's winesack on a bus, exultant at the thought of a fishing trip forthcoming.) This, not to say joyful, but at least sometimes happy side to Pappa's poetry is almost completely supplanted by the style that dominated his years in Europe as a WWII correspondent, Cuba, and Idaho. These poems are more technically adroit, sometimes beautiful, but introspective and often a bit more than morose. Ironic: The same man who inveighed against Dorothy Parker for her failed suicide attempts blew his mind out in some corner of Idaho decades after he'd made a name for himself in literature so rockfast that, as long as there are the literate, there will be the Hemingway-lovers.

That notwithstanding, Hemingway made a name with Farewell to Arms, The Battler, et al. These poems are brilliant, but, for the two of you who've never read a Hemingway prose volume, remember: His novels are just glorious poems with more action, characters and plot. And are far more reflective of his genius than even these wonderful selections.

Originally published as 88 Poems in 1979. This is an updated version with a new afterword. Shows the breadth of work Hemingway did, not only novels, short stories, journalism and literary non-fiction but poetry too. The earliest was when he was 12 yrs old and foreshadows his great range. They span to age 56. Some were for small publications. Many were written to individuals and were never intended for publication. This volume is exquisitely annotated. Some are earthy as you would expect from a man who was involved with war, wingshooting, big-game fishing. Some are delicate and sensitive. The book is worth reading to explore the great range of Hemingway.

Concordance like in nature, Oliver's "Ernest Hemingway: A to Z" is one of those books that should always be within arm's reach. It contains detailed plot summaries not only for all of Hemingway's novels, but also his short stories, nearly 50 b&w photos of Ernest in all his glory, a Hemingway family tree, an extensive bibliography of works by and about Hemingway, a list of film, stage, television, and radio adaptations of Hemingway's work, and a Hemingway chronology. Oliver deserves great praise for this invaluable contribution to Hemingway scholarship.

Oliver's "A To Z" joins Michael Reynolds' "Hemingway, The Final Years," as one of the two or three really valuable books to be issued or reissued in this, the centennial year of Hemingway's birth. As a Hemingway scholar, former editor of "The Hemingway Review" and a dealer in collectible Hemingway editions, Oliver is eminently suited to the task of preparing what amounts to a Hemingway encyclopedia. Casual readers of Hemingway's work and Papa aficionados will find equal value in this book. It is particularly refreshing to have a volume such as this one that confines itself to the facts of the life and the (reasonable) scholarly conjectures regarding the text and subtext of Hemingway's books and short stories. To his credit, Oliver doesn't feel compelled to include listings for Duff Twysden or Harold Loeb, citing them as "obvious" inspirations for certain fictional characters who crop up in a certain Hemingway novel released in the mid-Twenties. One caveat: Given the fact that this book is intended as a reference volume - and therefore a book to be consulted more than once - it is lamentable such a thin grade of paper was chosen (blame the publisher, not Oliver). Therefore, take durability where you can find it and buy the hardback edition.

Charles Oliver has put together a remarkable reference book for both Hemingway fans and scholars alike. As the title suggests, this is a truly "essential" book for the serious student studying Hemingway's life or his work. It includes summaries of all the novels, all the stories, many of his newspaper and magazine articles and a wealth of biographical and historical information. The book also has one of the finest bibliographies of Hemingway and Hemingway-related works available. On top of all this is a wonderul, easy-to-read timeline of Hemingway's life and the important events which helped shape the work of this century's most enduring author.

another well-written bio on the one and only ernest hemingway. key west was/is a colorful place and so was ernie. i enjoyed this one. damn near felt like almost being there and enjoying a beer with ernie.

Of the many books about Hemingway, this is one of the most enjoyable I have yet found.

I discovered it when I was living in Eanes Lane, about 2 houses away from the Hemingway House, in Key West.

This book is one of the few that is really able to convey the atmoshphere of the place--imagine how quiet it must have been down there in the 30's, before A1A connected the Keys and EVERYBODY could get down there; Think of the parties Papa threw for his pals who came to visit; the sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal weather; the sunsets, the fishing, the original Sloppy's.

I lived in Key Wierd for a couple years, and love it, but Papa's days MUST have been THE days! --Imagine bar hopping with Dos Passos or being able to sail over to Havana--the music! The nightclubs! The beaches! The Girls!--I digress, but you get the point. The recent release called "Hemingway's France" does very well describing the atmoshere of his Paris days. "Papa, Hemingway in Key West" does the same justice to the very productive and legend-shaping time he spent in Key West.

As well, there are several pages featuring a very good selection of photos from those days; including a couple black and white reproductions of great Waldo Peirce paintings in his typically loose, energetic style.

This is one of my favorite Hemingway references, and I turn to it repeatedly.

This is the first book review I've ever written, and it is because I know Hemingway fans will really enjoy Mr. McLendon's book.

The best book I have ever read on the life and times of Hemingway. Extremely insightfull into the man and his life after key west.