Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
That Summer in Paris
- Publisher
- Exile Editions
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2007
- Category
- Personal Memoirs
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550966886
- Publish Date
- Jun 2007
- List Price
- $16.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550963618
- Publish Date
- Jan 2014
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche—the Left Bank of the Seine River—in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of A Farewell to Arms, and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with Tender Is the Night. As his first published book rose to fame in New York, Morley Callaghan arrived in Paris to share the felicities of literary life, not just with his two friends, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but also with fellow writers James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some friendships flourished while others failed. This tragic and unforgettable story comes to vivid life in Callaghan's lucid, compassionate prose.
About the author
Morley Callaghan was the author of fifteen novels, including A Time for Judas, It's Never Over, The Loved and the Lost, and Such Is My Beloved. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and received a host of honours in Canada, including the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
Editorial Reviews
"His unobtrusive art is more subtle and his intelligence more mature than those of either [Hemingway or Fitzgerald]. Callaghan's book will surprise and shock the Hemingway fans." “Edmund Wilson
"If there is a better story writer in the world we don't know where he is." “The New York Times
