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April 17: Alumni Book Club Meeting Features A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
April 17, 2012
Date: Tuesday, April 17
Time: 5:30-7 p.m.
Location: MMC, Regina Peruggi Room (2nd Floor, Main Building)
Cost: Free (Refreshments and snacks will be served)
Contact: If you would like to RSVP, please email sluchs@mmm.edu or call (212) 517-0458.
Join the Marymount Manhattan College Alumni Book Club for a discussion of both A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most beloved works. It is his classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, filled with irreverent portraits of other expatriate luminaries such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein; tender memories of his first wife, Hadley; and insightful recollections of his own early experiments with his craft. You may read any of the available editions in print. We look forward to how you use the differences in the texts to contribute to the conversation.
A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures a remarkable period of time and a love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Though deeply in love, the Hemingways are ill prepared for the hard-drinking and fast-living life of Jazz Age Paris, which hardly values traditional notions of family and monogamy. Surrounded by beautiful women and competing egos, Ernest struggles to find the voice that will earn him a place in history, pouring all the richness and intensity of his life with Hadley and their circle of friends into the novel that will become The Sun Also Rises. Hadley, meanwhile, strives to hold on to her sense of self as the demands of life with Ernest grow costly and her roles as wife, friend, and muse become more challenging.
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