A Moveable Feast Author:Ernest Hamingway From Amazon.com: — John Barth once said, "The story of your life is not your life. It is your story." Hemingway himself gave us the wink in his introduction to A Moveable Feast , saying, "If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction." Just how many of his remembrances of the expatriate heaven called Paris were false and whether he ... more »was a young or old man when he wrote them have always been matters of speculation among aficionados. Opening with the statement " A Moveable Feast is clearly a reconstruction of the past rather than a recollection of it," Tavernier-Courbin proceeds to give readers a detailed account of the book's construction from conception and creation to posthumous editing and publication. Though the subject is covered to some extent in Michael Reynolds's Hemingway: The Paris Years; A Writer's Life ( LJ 11/15/89) and more specifically in Ronald Weber's Hemingway's Art of Non-Fiction ( LJ 2/15/90), the treatment here is much more in-depth than in either of those fine titles. Tavernier-Courbin's material is well researched and documented, making it a competent addition to Hemingway scholarship. Academic libraries specializing in American literature will want to add it to their collections.« less