This work looks at the 1920s in Paris, considered the pivotal years in Ernest Hemingway's apprenticeship as a writer, whether sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson, the birth of his first son and the discovery of the bullfights at Pamplona.