This book is the second volume in Michael Reynold's 5 volume set on Ernest Hemingway.

This book deals with the 1920's, when Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived in Paris. He worked for various news services as a print reporter and they lived on that and on his wife's small trust fund. During that time they had a son, traveled a lot in Europe and met the literary crowd in Paris.

Some of their new friends included Sherwood Anderson, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Pasos and F. Scott Fitzgerald. They traveled to Pamplona, Spain in the summer for bullfights and had a grand time.

They arrived in Paris in late 1921, shortly after they were married, having heard that it was a cheap and exciting place to live, with lots of writers hanging about. During this period, most of Hemingway's writing was short stories and poems and he had little success until about late 1924 into 1925. In that year of 1925, he started to be noticed more and he wrote the beginnings of his legendary novel, The Sun Also Rises.

At the end of their time in Paris, the Hemingway marriage was breaking up, thanks to a woman named Pauline Pfeiffer, who had a lot of money (PFIZER) and designs on Ernest. So, this is the time of struggle before he was really famous worldwide.

anyone interested in Hemingway. I feel that this writer is mostly fair, so far in this volume - more fair to Ernest than he was in the first volume.

Hadley and no one will ever change that.

read the next volume on my Kindle.

like I know more and understand more about how Ernest Hemingway dealt with criticism and his moodiness. He had a hard time with both.

so far so good in learning something substantial about a writer I admire so much. My admiration hasn't diminished, but my understanding has grown for the most well known writer of the 20th Century.

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