Just an amazing, effective book

A Moveable Feast is Ernest Hemingway's memoirs of when he was a young novelist and reporter, just starting out in Paris, France and centers around him and his first wife. The descriptions of Paris, the characters, and the feeling that Hemingway gives to that he was part of a community of truly great people makes this book very effective.

His descriptions of such literary greats as Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald is superb. Hemingway seems to conjure not only how nice it is to create art, but also to be surrounded by people with as much creative energy as he had.

In his own words, "But this is how Paris was in the early days, when we were very poor and very happy."

Extremely sad, when taken into account that he killed himself.