Hemingway's Paris: A Writer's City in Words and Images

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Walk through the Streets of Paris with Ernest Hemingway In gorgeous black and white images, Hemingway's Paris depicts a story of remarkable passion-for a city, a woman, and a time. No other city in any of his travels was as significant, professionally or emotionally, as was Paris. And it remains there, all of the complexity, beauty, and intrigue that Hemingway described in the pages of so much of his work.

Robert Wheeler has been a Hemingway enthusiast since reading his first Hemingway novel in 1986. For the past ten years, he has been a professor at Southern New Hampshire University where he teaches courses in writing and on Hemingway. He was the recipient of the coveted Excellence in Teaching Award for 2006. He lives in New Castle, New Hampshire with his wife, Meme, and daughters, Emma and Helen.

*Booklist Starred Review* "This achingly effective book is an album of crisp, evocative black-and-white photographs of locations in Paris that speak to some aspect of Hemingway's time there. Accompanying and amply informative captions link Hemingway's Parisian experiences to the photos of the haunts and hangouts, the landmarks and public spaces, that, if marble edifices and green spaces and hallowed cafe walls could talk, would tell their side of how Hemingway lived and loved and was altered in outlook by his enviable sojourn there." Brad Hooper, Booklist "Countless writers have channeled Hemingway in the years since The Sun Also Rises first appeared, not many of them successfully. Hemingway's Paris also aspires to achieve the master's legendary fourth, or even fifth, dimension -- not with prose alone, but with images too, working hand-in-glove. Is it ambitious? Yes. Does it work? Absolutely." J. Michael Welton, The Huffington Post "This book evokes not only the beauty of Paris but especially of Hemingway's remembrance of the early Paris years and his formation as a modernist writer. The exquisite photography and the evocative beauty of the prose bring out the very best of what Paris has to offer: past, present, and, forever, the future. Read this book and savor Hemingway's city." James Meredith, President, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society "By showing us the Paris that Hemingway saw, walked through, and loved, Robert Wheeler gives us a more complete picture than we have had of this legendary and complicated American writer." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University "Wheeler's photographs of Hemingway's Paris are a gritty illustration of what Perkins saw in Hemingway's writing." Jenny Phillips, grand-daughter of Hemingway's longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins "In this photographic tribute to Ernest Hemingway, Robert Wheeler uses his unerring eye and masterly vision to bring us Paris, city of literature and romance, in a unique and charming way. Inspired by A Moveable Feast, the crisp black-and-white images and accompanying narrative give us an original insight into both beloved city and renowned author. A delightful experience!" Valerie Hemingway, Author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways "If you're interested in Hemingway or Paris, this book is a must read." Sun Also Rises (Blog) *Booklist Starred Review* "This achingly effective book is an album of crisp, evocative black-and-white photographs of locations in Paris that speak to some aspect of Hemingway's time there. Accompanying and amply informative captions link Hemingway's Parisian experiences to the photos of the haunts and hangouts, the landmarks and public spaces, that, if marble edifices and green spaces and hallowed cafe walls could talk, would tell their side of how Hemingway lived and loved and was altered in outlook by his enviable sojourn there." Brad Hooper, Booklist "Countless writers have channeled Hemingway in the years since The Sun Also Rises first appeared, not many of them successfully. Hemingway's Paris also aspires to achieve the master's legendary fourth, or even fifth, dimension -- not with prose alone, but with images too, working hand-in-glove. Is it ambitious? Yes. Does it work? Absolutely." J. Michael Welton, The Huffington Post "This book evokes not only the beauty of Paris but especially of Hemingway's remembrance of the early Paris years and his formation as a modernist writer. The exquisite photography and the evocative beauty of the prose bring out the very best of what Paris has to offer: past, present, and, forever, the future. Read this book and savor Hemingway's city." James Meredith, President, The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Society "By showing us the Paris that Hemingway saw, walked through, and loved, Robert Wheeler gives us a more complete picture than we have had of this legendary and complicated American writer." Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University "Wheeler's photographs of Hemingway's Paris are a gritty illustration of what Perkins saw in Hemingway's writing." Jenny Phillips, grand-daughter of Hemingway's longtime editor, Maxwell Perkins "In this photographic tribute to Ernest Hemingway, Robert Wheeler uses his unerring eye and masterly vision to bring us Paris, city of literature and romance, in a unique and charming way. Inspired by A Moveable Feast, the crisp black-and-white images and accompanying narrative give us an original insight into both beloved city and renowned author. A delightful experience!" Valerie Hemingway, Author of Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways "If you're interested in Hemingway or Paris, this book is a must read." Sun Also Rises (Blog)