That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Some Others, Callaghan, Morley. Published by Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, 1963. BCE. 8vo up to 9½” tall., 255 pp. with black and white photos. Quarter red over yellow boards, red top edge. Name to free endpaper. In very good condition.
Callaghan’s 1963 memoir of the summer of 1929 when Callaghan lived among American expatriate writers on the Left Bank of Paris. Callaghan describes his close accounts of Ernest Hemingway (who was finishing A Farewell to Arms) and F. Scott Fitzgerald (who was working on Tender Is the Night), alongside figures like James Joyce and Ford Madox Ford. He provides a detailed description of ‘The Famous Boxing Match’, a legendary sparring match where Callaghan knocked Hemingway down, with Fitzgerald acting as timekeeper.
Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and TV and radio personality. He was the recipient of numerous awards and prizes, including 1951 Governor General’s Award for The Loved and the Lost and he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. That Summer in Paris is one of the finest memoirs in Canadian literature.
