The book offers a unique perspective on Ernest Hemingway's role as a father through a collection of letters exchanged with his son Patrick over two decades. It provides intimate insights into their relationship, showcasing Hemingway's thoughts, emotions, and parenting style, revealing a more personal side of the renowned author.
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest
Hemingway's most beloved works. Since Hemingway's personal papers were
released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the
text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the
original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published. Featuring a
personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Ernest's sole surviving son, and an
introduction by the editor and grandson of the author, Sean Hemingway, this
new edition also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris
sketches revealing experiences that Hemingway had with his son Jack and his
first wife, Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of other
luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Madox Ford, and insightful
recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. Sure to excite
critics and readers alike, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast
brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the
unbridled creativity and enthusiasm that Hemingway himself experienced.In the
world of letters it is a unique insight into a great literary generation, by
one of the best American writers of the twentieth century.