The Lost Generation debuted at the Hemingway Days Festival in Key West, Florida in July of 2004 in support of the Hemingway Collection at the Customs House Museum administered by the Key West Art and Historical Society.
Act One: The first half of the play begins with a dreamlike memory of Hemingway’s World War I wounding in Italy. The act then deals with his life in Petoskey, MI, his early work at the Toronto Daily Star newspaper, his eviction from the family cottage and his marriage to Hadley Richardson. The act concludes with Sherwood Anderson convincing the newly married couple to travel to Paris.
Act Two: In the second act, Hemingway meets Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, skis in the Swiss Alps and endures the loss of his manuscripts, by his wife, in a Paris train station. A brief return to Canada includes the birth of his first son, John; however, a conflict with his editor sends him back to France where Pauline Pfeiffer enters his life and disrupts his marriage.
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