A Moveable Feast
Fleming considers "True at First Light" similar to Hemingway's "Green Hills of Africa" and "A Moveable Feast"—a book that presents a primary topic as a backdrop interspersed with internal dialogue. Unlike the other two books, "True at First Light" is without a preface "indicating the intentions of the author or dictating how he intended to have the book read". Fleming thinks Hemingway regarded "Green Hills of Africa" as experimental and "A Moveable Feast" as fiction. Rose Marie Burwell, author of "Hemingway: The Postwar Years and the Posthumous Novels", believes Hemingway enjoyed writing the "strange combination of memoir and fiction". She thinks in the fictional aspects of "True at First Light" he is free to imagine a second wife and to jettison his Protestant background.