Paris on the eve of liberation is described as “dark ... Among these are Ernest Hemingway, already famous but there ostensibly as a journalist, and JD Salinger, at that time an unknown young ...

It is the city of Paris, in memory and effect that is the moveable feast; to it, Hemingway sat again in these recollections, written between 1958 and 1960, of his Paris life in the early 20's.