Tuesday, November 24, 2015

How Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' Has Become A Bestseller in France


Adam Chandler at theatlantic.com reports that Ernest Hemingway's memoir of life in Paris has become a bestseller in France following the terrorist attacks. Y

The horrific attacks in Paris earlier this month, which killed 130 people and stirred transcontinental riptides, has also set off a renaissance for Ernest Hemingway’s book, A Moveable Feast.
The Paris memoir, published posthumously in 1964, holds the top spot on Amazon’s French site, has sold out of stock at a number of bookstores and, as Le Figaro reports, has become a fixture among the flowers in memorials across the city. 

You can read the rest of the piece via th below link:

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/11/ernest-hemingway-paris-attacks-a-moveable-feast/417294/

1 comment:

  1. Very interesting and surprising. This sends me to the bookshelf for my copy. It's time for a rereading experience. Thanks for the posting.

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