He depicts his genteel poverty (especially after he gave up journalistic activities to devote fulltime to writing), his obsession with gambling on horse races, his new interest in bicycle racing. His kindest comments are about Sylvia Beach, the American who ran an English bookstore called Shakespeare and Company- it was a hangout for English-speaking authors and others, and was an oasis for individuals seeking English-langauage books. He describes a great deal of drinking (about which he seems to have no expressed regret), writing in the cafes he frequented, visits to Gertrude Stein, her homosexuality and views thereof,Īnd her characterization of his generation as a "lost generation". Of whom he has nothing but fond memories.
Overall Impression: Hemingway's nostalgic, remorseful, boozy, and sometimes bitter and unkind recollections of his years in Paris as an expatriate in the 1920's with his first wife Hadley , Quotations are for the most part taken from that work, as
Summary by Michael McGoodwin, prepared 1998Īcknowledgement: This work has been summarized using the Touchstone 1996Įdition.
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