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Article: `PARIS PILGRIMS' A FUN READ BUT IS IT FAIR TO HEMINGWAY AND COMPANY?(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 20, 1999
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One shudders to imagine what the literary scholars will make of ``The Paris Pilgrims,'' Clancy Carlile's novel about Ernest Hemingway and other famous American exiles in France in the 1920s. Here we learn at last what Hemingway and James Joyce did during a long evening they spent together, and how Hemingway, the neophyte American writer, ended up trundling home Joyce, the passed-out author of ``Ulysses,'' in a wheelbarrow.
Here we learn how the sexually experimental Joyce encouraged his partner, Nora Barnacle, to take a lover, in imitation of Molly Bloom and Blazes Boylan in ``Ulysses.'' We learn that the prospective lover Nora chose was none other than ...