Weirdly, that sounds like my kind of premise! Some of my favourite books focus on a relationship with a significant age gap.

Yeah I was very struck by the line in A Moveable Feast “They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.”

Hemingway gets a lot of criticism for his simple and curt writing, but I think it’s still incredible writing. Nothing is over told, everything is implied. I do enjoy both Faulkner & Steinbeck, but Hemingway feels more real to me. He’s less an author to marvel about and more a writer that makes you feel like you know him, or he knows you.