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Hey there Rebecca, I read the Paris Wife which encouraged me to read A Moveable Feast. Truly fantastic reading experience with the two books together. I think it really engaged me in Hemingway's writing in a way that I wouldn't have done otherwise. I am now looking forward to see if I can engage with some of his other books. Baby steps. :)

I just finished The Paris Wife and loved it for the glimpse into what Hadley felt and saw. It is, truly, the "she said" version of A Moveable Feast, even though it is fiction.

Thanks for suggesting the Paris Wife. A good deal of the book during Hemigway's movements around the city of Paris he was literally hungry and tried to avoid the eateries and cafes because he was too poor to pay for food. He also spoke of how different it was to view a great painting in a state of hunger, as if seeing it for the first time from that state. Paris is a feast for the eyes stomach and senses in so many ways wherever you turn.

Hemingway's wife at the time had a small income from a family inheritance. She and Hemingway were not hungry while in Paris. He embellishes his "suffering" for romantic purposes.

- That may be true, Douglas Avridson, but having read "Paris Without End" ..a portrait of Hemingway's first marriage, I sense that it took a lot of courage - a gamble, shall we say - to be embarking on a literary career whether in Paris or anywhere. Therefore, a kind of hunger persisted both inside one's body and outside, too.