This event is open to members and non-members.
The February book club selection is A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemingway.
Date and Time: Monday, February 29th at 2 PM
Place: The book store Raconte Moi la Terre’s tearoom, 14 rue du Plat 69002 Lyon (near Place Bellecour)
Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works. Since Hemingway’s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined the changes made to the text before publication. Now this special restored edition presents the original manuscript as the author prepared it to be published.
Featuring a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, Hemingway’s sole surviving son, and an introduction by Hemingway’s grandson, the book also includes a number of unfinished, never-before-published Paris sketches revealing experiences Hemingway had with his son Jack and his first wife Hadley. Also included are irreverent portraits of literary luminaries, such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ford Maddox Ford, and insightful recollections of Hemingway’s own early experiments with his craft.
Widely celebrated and debated by critics and readers everywhere, the restored edition of A Moveable Feast brilliantly evokes the exuberant mood of Paris after World War I and the unbridled creativity and unquenchable enthusiasm that Hemingway himself epitomized.
Let us know if you plan to attend so we can save enough chairs. They serve lunch there if you would like to come earlier.
Contact: bookclub@americanclublyon.org
March’s selection is Trail of Broken Wings by Sejal Badani.
Event Organizers: Denise Kafeyan, Lisa Arsac