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The Paris Pilgrims
by Clancy Carlile
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Carroll & Graf (2000-06-06)
ISBN: 0786707534
EAN: 9780786707539
Dewey Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 464 pages
SKU: 20036
Condition: Used: Very Good
Comments: Paperback. Writing in pencil on title page. Book pages clean and crisp with no markings.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This spirited, often startling novel entangles a brash young Ernest Hemingway intimately in the lives of the artists and exiles who haunted bohemian Paris in the early 1920s. He drinks with James Joyce, discusses poetry with Gertrude Stein, argues politics with a Ezra Pound, and explores sexual possibilities with a bewitching Djuna Barnes. He strides into the lives of the "ambisexual" dilettante Robert McAlmon; of the eccentric (and resentful) Alice B. Toklas, a sympathetic Sylvia Beach, and a bemused Nora Joyce. They tell some of Hemingway's story, as does his loyal wife, Hadley, who strives both to comprehend and understand. Out of the hushed confidences, sexual intrigues, drunken confessionals, and casual slanders emerges not just Hemingway the war correspondent, sportsman, bullfighting aficionado, and eminent writer being enigmatically born, but also Hemingway as you've never seen him before: from inside the eyes of his lovers, enemies, mentors, and friends.
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Customer Reviews
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Paris Pilgrims
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-07-21
I could not put this book down. I think it perfectly reflects the time period and Hemingway's true personality. "Paris Pilgrims" is a great companion book to "A Moveable Feast."
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First Hemmingway Biography I Read- Not Bad
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-11-22
I love Hemmingways writing, and ran into this book on a discount basin in a bookstore. Although the book is written as a biography of hemmingway over a brief period of time in Paris, I found the book interesting and read it quickly. I like Hemmingway even more after having read this book.
Based on the other reviews of this book - I will probably reach out to read additional Biographies on Hemmingway.
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Horrible Book. I Threw It Away
Rating  (1)
Date: 2006-10-14
What a disgrace to treat Hemingway this way. Put words in his mouth; make up deeds he didn't do, and print it. I threw this book away early on, no one should have to pay for something like this. Poor writing, poor treatment of subject, a farce. I'd rather read a book about how to potty train a ferret than be subjected to idiocy like this. I gave it a one star rating only because there was no minus zero available.
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Excellent Read!
Rating (4)
Date: 2003-06-25
I have read much about Hemmingway and this author has done justice to his lifestyle. It is very informative about literary Paris in the 20's and 30's. Do remember it is a novel and enjoy!
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Hemingway (and Reviewers) Protesting Too Much?
Rating (4)
Date: 2001-01-22
7 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
I don't know, I have read almost every biography of Hemingway, and many biographies of the other writers from this group, and quite frankly I think Carlile got it right. Of course in a novel the author adds thoughts and dialogue, but again, little of it seemed far afield from the biographical realities I have read. In truth, most of these folks were self-aggrandizing, narcissistic, drunken sloths, who showed a great deal of pettiness and jealousy of each others' works. Most of the reviews here seemed upset with Carlile's focus on sexuality. However, the fact was that these post-Victorian writers and artists, not unlike late 1950s and 1960s practitioners in that sexual revolution, WERE obsessed with sexuality, and experimented to a great degree with sexual variations and polyamory. Finally, some of the reviewers were put-off by the scene where Hemingway (in his sleep??) forced himself sexually on McAlmon. Frankly, Carlile is not the first to hypothesize that Hemingway's youthful and extreme disdain for homosexuality (culminating in some pretty violent acts against homosexual acquaintences of his) may have been his overcompensating for his own homosexual impulses, and that this "reaction-formation" may even be the source of his life-long and often farcical attempts (through deeds and writings) to prove the extent of his own masculinity. Indeed, contemporaries of his theorized this about Hemingway for years.In any event, I frankly enjoyed the book. It was obvious that Carlile had read the same histories of this group as I have read over the years, and it was fun to have him fill in the blanks with what seemed to be right-on-target and realistic appraisals of a group whose talents were not as developed as their egos, and whose actions (scatological and sexual ones included) were elevated to cultural phenomena.
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