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Hemingway: The Paris Years
by Michael Reynolds

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Author: Michael Reynolds
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-01
ISBN: 0393318796
Number of pages: 402
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Book Review: A Better Take
Summary: 5 Stars

Much of what I knew or thought I knew about Ernest Hemingway came from brief introductions in high school or college at the hands of teachers or professors whose biases tended to cloud and obscure my own limited view.
Years later after reading a better portion of his work- liking some books, not liking others, I came to better appreciate the terse, run-on style and prose that won him his acclaim. Knowing how he got 'their' was always a mystery and maybe that's why I think Michael Reynolds book shines brightly and offers a better, more reflective light of the author than what I've previously encountered.
This is a very good book and one that perhaps should be made mandatory reading for those instructors who have Hemingway on their suggested reading lists. If you want to know something more of Ernest Hemingway as well as the American ex-pats in Paris in the 20s and the central literary figures who served as mentors, critics or who, in some way, for good or bad, helped shape the writer he became, then add this one to your bookshelf. This isn't a 'puff piece' either. Reynolds balanced out both the light and dark side to Hemingway and the transitions in-between.
Five stars easily.

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