A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man: Romping Through Paris in the 1920s

by Jerome Tuccille

A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man is apartly satirical, partly serious homage to the men and women whom many regard as perhaps the greatest literary generation in modern times. Like other writers of his generation, the author, Jerome Tuccille grew up in the shadows of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wolfe, Faulkner and other early 20th century authors. The book is written with tongue firmly planted in cheek but also with great respect for the writers portrayed in it.

Genres: Biography

124 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2010

About the author

Jerome Tuccille (c. 1937 – February 2017) was an American writer and activist usually associated with the libertarian movement of American politics.

Reviews

[Alan (the Lone Librarian) Teder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this earlier book after already reading the sequel Hemingway and Gellhorn: The Untold Story of Two Writers, Espionage, War, and the Great Depression and this was definitely in the same trashy exploitative vein as the second one.

it makes for some entertainment but rewriting Hemingway's own Paris memoir A Moveable Feast as biography (when Hemingway himself admitted it could be read as fiction and a lot of it has been proved as such in Ernest Hemingway's a Moveable Feast) seems like an invitation to be prosecuted for plagiarism.