![]() ![]() His life outside writing was just as celebrated: the bull fight aficionado, the boxer, the big game hunter, the fisherman, the friend of Spanish Republicans, the man who liberated Paris. He'd sold hundreds of thousands of books. He had done it all by 1956, when he was spurred into reminiscence following the rediscovery of some old Paris notebooks which had lain for many years in a trunk in the basement of the Ritz hotel. It speaks as loudly of Hemingway at the end of his career as it does of the beginning.Īnd that career was remarkable. But it's pretty much the last word from someone on the way out. ![]() ![]() But as Mogger64 noted in his original nomination, it's significant that A Moveable Feast was "written at the end of his life". I n looking at In Our Time and A Moveable Feast, we've mainly focused on Hemingway as a young man: fit, young and heading for the stratosphere. ![]()
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