Exile Classics series: That Summer in Paris : A New Expanded Edition (Paperback)

from alanteder

Published first, in 1963, but makes for an excellent A Moveable Feast (1964) sequel. "The Quarter was like a small town. It had little points of protocol, little indignities not to be suffered." - That Summer in Paris, page 109 "Look at it in this way. Scott didn't like McAlmon. McAlmon no longer...

from TimBazzett

Morley Callaghan's excellent memoir of the expatriate scene on Paris's left bank in 1929, THAT SUMMER IN PARIS, was first published in 1963. Callaghan wrote the book because he found he was deeply affected by the tragic suicide of his one-time friend, Ernest Hemingway, and memories of Paris from ...

from lucthegreat

I don't recall where I heard about this book, but when it came in on hold at the library, I was immediately hooked. I am fond of Callaghan's writing, and I like his mixture of boyish enthusiasm and hard-headed Canadian common sense. This book inspired me, as I saw much of myself in the author, a...

from READnotowned

Morley Callaghan comes off as a name dropping chauvinist, taking an immediate dislike to the women he meets in Paris that summer. Sylvia Beach offends the great Callaghan because she refuses to give out the personal information of her writer friends. Zelda Fitzgerald he sneers at because she ment...

from kraaivrouw

I re-read The Sun Also Rises prior to reading this and it probably did this book a disservice because The Sun Also Rises is just so wonderful and this book definitely suffered in comparison. The problem, ultimately, is that Hemingway writes like Hemingway and Callaghan writes like a journalist. T...