The Paris PilgrimsClancy Carlile

The Paris Pilgrims

Name: The Paris Pilgrims
ISBN: 9780786707539

Clancy Carlile · 1999

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"He is not yet twenty-three - the callow, unsophisticated, ruggedly six-foot-two Ernest Hemingway who arrives in Paris in 1922 - but with a parcel of war tales and a pocketful of prose he has already begun working on the legend he will become, whether he's carousing with the all-night crowd in the bistros of Montmartre or taking a polite glass of wine at the Cafe Voltaire with James Joyce.". "To startling effect biography commingles with fiction in this novel as it introduces a brash but magnetic Hemingway to the high style and bohemian haunts of the artists and exiles who, with unflinching candor, tell his story. For this Hemingway is known by the company he keeps: by Mike Strater, a painter he admires and woefully betrays: by the "ambisexual" dilettante Robert McAlmon: by the eccentric and resentful Alice B. Toklas, a sympathetic Sylvia Beach, a bemused Nora Joyce; by Hemingway's loyal wife. Hadley, meanwhile strives desperately not only to please but also to comprehend."--BOOK JACKET.

First sentence: WHEN SYLVIA BEACH was fourteen years old, her father was sent from his Presbyterian parsonage in Princeton, New Jersey, to serve as pastor of the American Church in Paris, and Sylvia knew that Paris would be her home forever.