The Paris Wife

By Paula McLain

An instant national bestseller, this stunningly evocative, beautifully rendered story told in the voice of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, has the same power and historical richness that made Loving Frank a bestseller.

No twentieth-century American writer has captured the popular imagination as much as Ernest Hemingway. This novel tells his story from a unique point of view—that of his first wife, Hadley. Through her eyes and voice, we experience Paris of the Lost Generation and meet fascinating characters such as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and Gerald and Sara Murphy. The city and its inhabitants provide a vivid backdrop to this engrossing and wrenching story of love and betrayal that is made all the more poignant knowing that, in the end, Hemingway would write of his first wife, "I wish I had died before I loved anyone but her."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Feb 22, 2011
• ISBN: 9780385669238

Paula McLain

Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan, and has been a resident of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. She is the author of two collections of poetry, two novels, and a memoir, and lives in Cleveland with her family.

Reviews for The Paris Wife

[mojomomma_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Hadley met an ambitious writer at a party in Chicago and was swept off her feet. That writer was a young and unknown Ernest Hemingway. They moved to Paris for his career which finally took off, but at the expense of his marriage. Written from Hadley's point of view. I could barely put this book down.

[eye_gee-1 · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Hated this audio book. Not sure if out was the sugar-sweet voice of the reader or the Pollyanna-like personality of the subject. Not being a Hemingway fan, there wasn't much to hold my interest other than occasional cameos by other artists.

[loveatfirstbook · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

For my first Jazz Age January book, I chose The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. I’m with Leah, when she mentioned that books that are ____ Wife can be annoying. But based on the popularity of The Paris Wife, I figured I would give the book a shot.I was instantly hooked. The Paris Wife is about Ernest Hemingway’s life, focusing on his young-middle aged years, when he was married to Hadley Richardson. The story is told from Hadley’s perspective, and she is just sooooo incredibly likable.I loved this novel. I rarely give a book 5 stars, but the reason why The Paris Wife deserves that 5th star is because McLain has made me want to check out more about Hemingway’s (and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s) lives! I feel like I could read a few biographies about both of these men, and F. Scott was barely even in The Paris Wife!For the full review, visit Love at First Book

[nml_dc · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Interesting look at the early adult life and career of a man who became more and more of a caricature of himself as he aged.

[carlathelibrarian · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I have had this book on my TBR list for a couple of years now and finally got to it thanks to one of the groups I am in doing a group read. I am glad they did. Historical Fiction is one of the genres I enjoy, but have to be in the mood. This book brought the time period to life and gave me a real insight into both Ernest Hemmingway, Hadley (his first wife) and the artists bohemian lifestyle.

I was not aware of the atmosphere of post-war Paris, but after reading this book, I have an amazing picture in my mind, the extravagance, the decadence, the debauchery, the fashions and fads of the time, the whiskey and wine, the cigarettes and smoke, the poverty and claustrophobia.

After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, Hadley and Ernest sail off to Paris so he can write in the city where other artists and authors live. They are madly in love, but that is not enough to sustain this marriage. As they meet other's in this community they become immersed in the wild lifestly. Although Ernest does not want a child, Hadley becomes pregnant and that seems to be the catalyst to send the marriage downhill. There are happy times and tough times in their life together, but in the end, Ernest moves on. As I read this book I thought about how shallow, selfish and callous he was in his treatment of Hadley, then I thought about the idea that no one can treat you badly unless you allow it. I am glad that Hadley finds a second chance at love and lives happily for many years, while Ernest moves from wife to wife searching for that elusive love that will sustain him. Overall a good historical fiction and romance.

[heroineinabook · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I was never terribly interested in Hemingway in my undergrad years but after my husband gave me A MOVEABLE FEAST to read before our trip to Paris for our honeymoon, I've started a love affair with the man. THE PARIS WIFE piqued my interest from the date of its publication but it was one of those books that the reviews always seemed to be mixed: People either really loved it or found it to be boring and unworthy as a historical fiction portrait of Hemingway/Hadley. I hemed and hawed on purchasing the novel, but waiting list at the library (which was forever long), so I finally sucked it up and bought it on my Kindle.

As a historical portrait of the time and period, I found much of the novel to be spot on. It was clearly very well researched in that regard. But that's where the books promise ends - the characters were all flat and Hadley was simpering and weak. The big pitch about the storyline was Hadley was a woman very much toe to toe with Hemingway in wit, intelligence, and in life and you get none of this in this book. At times I found the book a struggle to get through, but I finished it out of stubbornness.

A ficiotnalized history of someone should be written to inspire the reader to learning more about the person(s) of the time and this is the big failure of A PARIS WIFE. If I had not already had a burgeoning interest in Hemingway and a vague obsession for Paris in the '20s, this book would not have sent me in pursuit to learn more about the man or his crowd, which is a travesty.

There were also a few nitpicky editing decisions that were out of sync. For example, there is a scene where Hadley/Hemingway are having loads of hot sexytimes and then a few paragraphs later, they go have hot sexytimes again but Hemingway gets in a snit because they forgot to bring condoms - which totally belies the previous scene where they were having hot sexytimes all over the place. There are also issues where continuity was in question and never addresed.

I would not recommend this title because it does a disservice to Hemingway/Hadley, the writing is often flat and a lot of the supporting characters that were larger then life (Gertrude Steine, Fitzgerald, etc) seemed like secondary puppets on a small supporting stage. I gave it a three because there are a few moments of brilliancy in the book, but often it is from direct quotes of Hemingway's work.

[timbazzett · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I rarely read bestsellers, so I resisted THE PARIS WIFE for several years, until I found it at a library sale for just a buck. Even then it sat on my table for a couple months, unread. Well now I've finally read it and found that it lives up to all the praise it's gotten. Paula McClain has gotten inside the skin of Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, stolen her voice, and brought her magically to life as she lived it in 1920s Paris. She is in fact a much more sympathetic and likeable character than her self-centered, insecure and often boorish husband. Oh, don't get me wrong - I do love some of Hemingway's work. A FAREWELL TO ARMS is one of my favorite novels. But McClain saw him plain, and nailed it, when she had Hadley notice early in the marriage, "The way he was always out for himself, whatever the cost."Or, years later, when Hadley reflects on Ernest's life - "He was such an enigma, really - fine and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a son of a bitch. In the end, there wasn't one thing about him that was truer than the rest. It was all true."This is one damn fine book. It deserves its huge success. Bravo, Ms McLain. Very highly recommended.- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER

[kimmeyer-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

It took me awhile to get into this book, but I was so sad to leave it by the end. I think I liked it much more on audio than I would have in print. Now I want to read both Paula Mclain's other Hemingway novel and Hemingway's memoir A Movable Feast, and I've never read anything by or been interested in the man himself.

[whisper1_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

In 1920, an introverted, sheltered beautiful woman by the name of Hadley Richardson, met Ernest Hemingway. Immediately, he wooed her and soon she counted a hundred letters sent to her obsessively. And, while they didn't really know each other well, he claimed her for marriage.Leaving Chicago, they sailed to Paris. While there, she gave up her life for him. His life had to be her life. His drinking and carousing had to be accepted. While he lived a wild, tempestuous life in Paris, she had to go along and pretend to embrace it all while she never felt she fit in with the beautiful well-dressed, shallow women. Ernest thrived in the the hard-drinking ambiance of the rich and entitled. His friends were Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, and a host of other writers who were either just beginning their writing careers, or their star had already filled the literary world with marvelous words.When he developed a torrid affair with Pauline, a close friend of Hadley, she was torn apart. Living in Paris, then on to Spain where Ernest revelled in the the blood and gore of the bull fights, their excursions into the Swiss Alps, and other trips were primarily paid for by the rich because Ernest had not yet made his mark.When his writings become known, he gleefully back stabbed all who had helped him. When Hadley made the tragic mistake of becoming pregnant, his life didn't change, but her life surely did. While she still loved him, she was broken by the hurt and deceit of his utter inability to remain faithful, negating her, while embracing others with a supreme intensity.His days of Paris and Spain and his circle of friends was told in his first successful book, The Sun Also Rises. Published when it was obvious their marriage could not survive, he moved on and left her far behind. I finished the book with disdain for the man, and pity for the woman who seemed way too small for the hugeness of his ego.

[nancynova · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

rabck from Miss_Sunshine; historical fiction about Hemingway's first wife. They met in the US, but lived most of their short married life in Paris or other european locales, while Hemingway got his career as a writer off the ground.

[varielle_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a first person fictionalized narrative told from the perspective of Ernest Hemingway's first wife, Hadley during the early years of his career. She was probably the ideal spouse for Hemingway. Quite a bit older than he was, she was so thick in body and mind and generally dim-witted that she posed no threat to his masculinity either physically or intellectually. We all know what happened after he hooked up with Gellhorn. The only mildly interesting thing about her was her ability to play the piano. Her family had a strain of mental illness and she liked to knock back the sauce as much as her husband. She pulled a few stunts that may have been deliberate such as loosing all his working manuscripts on a train and "accidentally" getting pregnant. How she survived as long as she did among the most brilliant creative minds the twentieth century produced is surprising, but she was accepted and liked by them. The Paris Wife is so well written and researched that as colorless as the main character is, she still has some appeal.

[bravenewbks · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

If you've heard even a hint of a whisper about this book, you probably know that Hadley (aka "The Paris Wife") was Ernest Hemingway's first wife. The phrase "first wife" immediately and obviously gives away the ending... the marriage doesn't last.

What amazes me about this book is that even though I knew the marriage was doomed one way or the other, I was completely absorbed by their early romance, and fell in love with both of them a little bit. That may not sound like much for a book to accomplish, but it couldn't have been up against a more skeptical reader. (As a bride-to-be, I have a lot invested in my certainty that when it's really love, the marriage will last -- so I was actively looking to find fault with their relationship as a slightly silly little way of validating my own.) But it was so well written that I really believed it, believed that I would have loved her if I were him, and would have loved him if I were her. And the ending, though sad, somehow didn't belie the loveliness of the beginning.

Totally recommended for anyone with a shred of romance in his or her heart, and if you like Hemingway's work, you'll enjoy this just that much more.

[maggieflo_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a very compelling fictionalized version of the relationship between Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway. The story is narrated by Hadley and much research done by the author allows for some believable dialogue and descriptions of scenes in Paris, the Alps, Spain and the French Riviera.Hadley and Ernest meet in Chicago in 1920. He had returned damaged from WW1 and is struggling to write about his wartime experiences. She returns to her family in St. Louis and the two develop a very loving relationship through correspondence. They marry in 1921 and move to Paris, live in near poverty conditions, develop friendships with the local literati including Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound. Although they are both from wealthy and comfortable backgrounds they adapt a bohemian lifestyle. Lounging around cafes and drinking heavily becomes a daily routine. Hadley is eight years older than her husband and becomes his best critic, strongest supporter and loving wife. As Hemingway gradually becomes more successful, their circle of friends expands to include F Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda, wealthy Americans Gerald and Sara Murphy, he distances himself from his mentor Gertrude Stein.Annual visits to Pamplona provide the background story and the characters for his breakthrough novel “The sun also rises”. He skewers several friends by representing them in the book and neglects to include anyone resembling Hadley in the narrative.She is very excited about the book but is hurt that everyone in their close circle is included except her.Into this circle arrive Pauline and Jinny Pfeiffer, wealthy Americans. Pauline befriends Hadley first and then Ernest.As Hadley watches her husband fall in love with Pauline, she begins to see the dissolution of their marriage. To Ernest, everyone around them is having affairs, Hadley tries to adapt but finally asks for a divorce. They remain in love with each other their entire lives but it becomes evident that Hadley is the stronger one in the relationship.

[melissalenhardt · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I've never been a fan of Hemingway's writing. But, The Paris Wife made me want to read The Sun Also Rises, as well as revisit A Moveable Feast. Considering McClain hewed very close to the facts (and Hemingway's alienation of friends is well-documented) Papa comes off quite horribly here. A reprehensible genius.

[far2manybooks · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

3 stars only because I didn't know much about them, so I learned some things.

To me, this book felt flat.

Like a travel diary with lots of name dropping.
We went _____, we met _____.

I didn't really feel for Hadley.
I didn't really feel for young Ernest.

She lost him to another woman.
She was better off anyway.

Favorite:
In the epilogue, Hadley, who's moved on with her life, described him as an "enigma - fine and strong and weak and cruel. An incomparable friend and a Sonofabitch".

[cherylgrimm · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

When you're in love with a writer, you have to essentially forget yourself. This is the story of the woman who married Hemmingway. No need to mention her name, it doesn't matter. She is absorbed into his very being, entwined with his friends, engulfed into his moods and relegated to standing outside his writing, looking in. Part beautiful, part immensely sad. Such devotion. The cast of literary characters in this clique has always made me envious, just to have sat nearby and listened.. as Hadley Richardson did. Mrs. Hemmingway. McLain wove the tapestry tight, delving in to the crux of love, ambition and self service, while allowing the lint of happiness to flitter away. A must read for every Hemmingway fan, especially knowing that truly, behind every successful man is.....

[laytonwoman3rd · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Well-written, but oh, so sad, this is the story of Ernest Hemingway's first marriage as told by Hadley herself, and I loved her voice. Even knowing it was all going to come to grief, I was rooting for Hadley and Ernest in their early years. I could feel her attraction to his charm and good looks; the yearning for love fed by his attention. And she was "right" for him then. Her unwavering support and encouragement, her willingness to put his needs ahead of her own gave him freedom to write. Together they were "the same guy", and inspired their friends to believe they did marriage like nobody else, that they were "tethered to something higher" that made them indestructible. Hadley was a woman slightly out-of-time, surrounded by early feminists, yet clinging to her own more traditional take on marriage and determined not to turn into the kind of woman who ruled the household "with iron fists", like her mother and Ernest's had done. Although she never quite fit in with Hemingway's hard-drinking free-loving crowd, she did make fast friends there, and ultimately sparked more loyalty among them than he did, precisely because true loyalty meant something to her that her platinum plated bastard of a husband could never quite grasp. In the end, she rose above the dual betrayal by Ernest and their friend Pauline, finding the strength to learn who she was and what she could bear. Despite a loss that she would never stop feeling, she made a new life for herself and faded into the background of his, where she became "just the early wife, the Paris wife" of the "most important writer of his generation".

[mariacfox · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Loved this book as soon as I started it!

[tjsjohanna_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The story is known and the ending is not happy-ever-after and yet there is still a satisfying finish. I found Hadley to be such a sympathetic character which made the reading enjoyable. Ms McLain's imagining of Ernest & Hadley's marriage is complex and provides plausible explorations for what made it work and what broke it in the end. I finished the book feeling sorry for Ernest Hemingway and what he lost.

[rbeffa_2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I started off reading this one fast and then I slowed down. In fact I went back and forward and reread more than a few things. Not for clarity but for enjoyment. Having read Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" I quickly realized this was an excellent companion to it so I pulled that book off the shelf and read bits of it along the way. The Paris Wife is written in many small chapters (as is A Moveable Feast) and this makes it very easy to read small bits and be satisfied. Hadley Richardson, The Paris Wife, was Ernest Hemingway's first wife and some would say the great love of his life. One of, anyway. Maybe the one. She was, this book has convinced me, too good of a person for Hemingway, but they brought out the best of each other for an adventurous period of time, and for most of that time they were right and good for each other. Hemingway had to blow it in the worst possible way. I pretty much knew that before I read this, but now I know it better. This is a wonderful piece of historical fiction that will transport you to another era in the 1920's, and give you a glimpse of the way it was. Highly recommended.

[sweetiegherkin · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Hadley Richardson meets and falls in love with a young Ernest Hemingway, eventually marrying the aspiring author and moving with him to Paris during the 1920s.This book seemed like something made specifically for me with a bunch of my favorite things - historical fiction, Paris, Ernest Hemingway, etc. However, it was severely disappointing. Quite frankly, I was not impressed by McLain's writing style, which I found largely to be lackluster and borderline tedious. Her book is populated with flamboyant people from history (e.g., Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald) and is set around intense events (e.g., running of the bulls at Pamplona), yet hardly anything in the book excites interest at all, being related instead placidly through the dull eyes of our protagonist. This is perhaps my biggest problem with the book - the character of Hadley herself. She is a co-dependent, whiny woman with no interests or friends outside of Ernest's, and the action verb most associated with her is "cried." She cries about everything that takes Ernest away for her even briefly. In possibly the most egregious example of this, Hadley locks herself in their Parisian apartment, drinking and crying herself to sleep because Ernest is on assignment. The woman is in Paris, for goodness's sake, with hundreds of things she could see or do, even for free or cheap*, but she can't manage to extradite herself from her room because her husband is travelling for work. No. I have no patience for this. Even with the limited options available to women in the past, she still had a lot more she could have done with her life than sit around crying every time Ernest is out of her sight. (*Follow-up rant: Hadley is always going on and on about how they are dirt poor, but the Hemingways are always managing to jet off to some European tourist spot for weeks on end without either of them working and yet still paying for their Parisian apartment in addition to their vacation lodgings.)Seeing through Hadley's eyes, life is pretty boring, even in a bohemian setting during the Roaring Twenties. The first half of the book was very difficult for me to get into, given how much I had come to despise the Hadley character for her lack of anything appealing. It took me more than 2 years to finally finish this book because for that first half, I could barely read more than a couple pages at a time before my disgust and disinterest in Hadley and her dull tale would take over. After more than halfway through reading the book, momentum finally took over (that, and the lack of anything else to read while I was in between library books). This section also contained the more interesting parts of the book - those ones that mimic themes and plot points from Hemingway's own works (particularly The Sun Also Rises and Garden of Eden). Still, I wouldn't describe it as a book that you couldn't put down.Not sure if I can emphasize enough that a good historical fiction book of this type that focuses on a real person needs to choose a subject that is or does something fascinating and then write about that subject in a compelling way. (The real Hadley may have indeed been a very interesting person who was grossly misrepresented here, in which case I feel quite bad for the poor woman.) This book just didn't have anything moving to hold my attention or allow me to recommend it. There are so many better historical fiction options out there (e.g., Loving Frank, which I can't recommend enough) or frankly, a nonfiction account of the first Mrs. Hemingway is probably equally - or perhaps even more so - interesting to read.

[jodeneg-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good if you are familiar with Hemingway and his lifestyle.

[gayla.bassham · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Beautifully written in general, although there are a few spots where the exposition gets a bit clunky. A well-realized poignant ending. But my beef with this book is that it doesn't add any new insight to what we already know about Hemingway's relationship with Hadley. More than that, it seems to take Hemingway's view of Hadley and their marriage at face value. When I finished the book, I was no closer to understanding what Hemingway saw in Hadley in the first place, because the Hadley who narrates this book is a fairly bland personality. I was hoping for a more complex characterization.

[karen.helfrick · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Oh, this book. I really enjoyed seeing the early Paris years through Hadley, Hemmingway's first (and best) wife. It felt like Hadley was a friend, telling me about last week with her significant other. And growing up in Michigan with frequent Chicago trips, I thought the transition from Midwest to big city was well written. Overall this has inspired research and reading into the lives of Hadley and Hemmingway, and I would recommend it to any woman who loves to read, or who loves an artist.

[cinacio-2 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This was a great in-depth look at Ernest Hemingway and how he soared to literary success, and I loved being able to see it all from the perspective of his first wife. While her character seems weak now in such a modern female-empowered society, my heart broke for her each time she let Ernest walk all over her. The prose was slow at times, but all in all I just found myself invested in Hadley's character, her life, and her happiness.

[shsunon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The Paris Wife is the account of Hemingway's marriage to Hadley Richardson, the first of his four wives. Like many talented writers, Hemingway was married to his work; people and personal relationships were not as valued.

[byshieldmaiden · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I was never terribly interested in Hemingway in my undergrad years but after my husband gave me A MOVEABLE FEAST to read before our trip to Paris for our honeymoon, I've started a love affair with the man. THE PARIS WIFE piqued my interest from the date of its publication but it was one of those books that the reviews always seemed to be mixed: People either really loved it or found it to be boring and unworthy as a historical fiction portrait of Hemingway/Hadley. I hemed and hawed on purchasing the novel, but waiting list at the library (which was forever long), so I finally sucked it up and bought it on my Kindle.

As a historical portrait of the time and period, I found much of the novel to be spot on. It was clearly very well researched in that regard. But that's where the books promise ends - the characters were all flat and Hadley was simpering and weak. The big pitch about the storyline was Hadley was a woman very much toe to toe with Hemingway in wit, intelligence, and in life and you get none of this in this book. At times I found the book a struggle to get through, but I finished it out of stubbornness.

A ficiotnalized history of someone should be written to inspire the reader to learning more about the person(s) of the time and this is the big failure of A PARIS WIFE. If I had not already had a burgeoning interest in Hemingway and a vague obsession for Paris in the '20s, this book would not have sent me in pursuit to learn more about the man or his crowd, which is a travesty.

There were also a few nitpicky editing decisions that were out of sync. For example, there is a scene where Hadley/Hemingway are having loads of hot sexytimes and then a few paragraphs later, they go have hot sexytimes again but Hemingway gets in a snit because they forgot to bring condoms - which totally belies the previous scene where they were having hot sexytimes all over the place. There are also issues where continuity was in question and never addresed.

I would not recommend this title because it does a disservice to Hemingway/Hadley, the writing is often flat and a lot of the supporting characters that were larger then life (Gertrude Steine, Fitzgerald, etc) seemed like secondary puppets on a small supporting stage. I gave it a three because there are a few moments of brilliancy in the book, but often it is from direct quotes of Hemingway's work.

[rascalstar · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Wonderful book. This story about Ernest Hemingway and his first wife is rich in time, place, detail, and dialog. It's emotional, beautiful, tragic and interesting. I won't attempt to give a synopsis as you can read those just about everywhere, for what it's worth. Reading this book ignited a new interest in Hemingway's work and also the author's work. This from someone who is almost never interested in famous people unless they are truly interesting individuals. Status and fame alone aren't enough to make a person interesting to me.

Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley, lived mostly in Paris and traveled in Europe. Their evolving circle of friends included other writers and artists of the time: Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Zelda Fitzgerald and others. For all the historic details provided about people and places, the book was fascinating. Customs among this crowd ranged from charming to bizarre.

The author brings these people and this period to life profoundly. A thoroughly lovely read as well as a learning experience. I have only praise for the author.

[debkrenzer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

While I've never read a Hemingway book, I've always heard that he drank a lot and could be a hard man to get along with. I have seen his house in Key West and saw some of the bars he supposedly hung out in. I was rather taken back in the size of his house there. However, after reading this book, it was at a time when he wasn't as well known. So that explains that. I did learn a lot about Hemingway that I did not know and also his friends. From this book, I went back and forth on liking him. I atrociously detest what he and Pauline did to Hadley. I was also appalled at the behavior of some of their friends, especially the Fitzgeralds.I did enjoy going back in history and learning more about Hadley and her relationship with Hemingway. As I said, I didn't know much about him and I found it fascinating to learn about them. This was a very entertaining and interesting book. I'm going to have to find a copy of "The Sun Also Rises" and see if it's true that he did write it for Bumby and Hadley.Purchased by reviewer.

[cjordan916 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Historical fiction about hemmingway's first wife