A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

**Please note: I changed the date and time of this book club so that we could alternate Saturday afternoons and Thursday nights. ** We will be meeting at Poor Phil's in Oak Park. It looks like there are two versions of the book out there and one is edited/modified by his son. From what I can gather with the reviews and comments, it is probably best to buy the book that isn't modified - the "restored edition". Feel free to buy either version. We bought both so that we could see the difference. While Border's only seems to have the hardcover for $25, Amazon sells the restored edition for $16.50 new. Hardcover: 208 pages Publisher: Scribner (October 1, 1996) Language: English ISBN-10: 0684833638 ISBN-13: 978-0684833637 Here's an Amazon review of the book: In the preface to A Moveable Feast, Hemingway remarks casually that "if the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction"--and, indeed, fact or fiction, it doesn't matter, for his slim memoir of Paris in the 1920s is as enchanting as anything made up and has become the stuff of legend. Paris in the '20s! Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived happily on $5 a day and still had money for drinks at the Closerie des Lilas, skiing in the Alps, and fishing trips to Spain. On every corner and at every café table, there were the most extraordinary people living wonderful lives and telling fantastic stories. Gertrude Stein invited Hemingway to come every afternoon and sip "fragrant, colorless alcohols" and chat admid her great pictures. He taught Ezra Pound how to box, gossiped with James Joyce, caroused with the fatally insecure Scott Fitzgerald (the acid portraits of him and his wife, Zelda, are notorious). Meanwhile, Hemingway invented a new way of writing based on this simple premise: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."