Hemingway - The Paris Years (Paperback, Revised)

"An excellent account of the formative years of the artist. . . . Reynolds is as good on the Paris writing as he is on the Paris life." — Times Literary Supplement

The 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafés or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and the writing of The Sun Also Rises. These are also the years of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son, and his discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona.

"Reynolds establishes himself as without peer among those still sorting and shifting the tangle of lies and facts that are Hemingway's self-invented life. . . . The genius of the book lies in a graceful and informative linkage between literary creation and biographical incident." — Library Journal (starred)

"Engrossing. . . . Reynolds's penetrating analysis and meticulous scholarship reveal Hemingway in all his complexity as man and artist, with no flaw glossed over. The hypocrisy, selfishness, paranoia, the discipline, genius, and ruthlessly self-promoting ambition — all are illuminated and woven into a narrative as compelling as a novel." — Choice

• "The best book about how Hemingway became Hemingway." — Scott Donaldson
• Published in conjunction with the Hemingway centennial