Her Hemingway, too, cuts an unfamiliar figure – only 21 when they meet, he is needy, unsure, and eager, his writing career barely started.Īfter their marriage, the two leave for Paris as quickly as they can manage. McLain’s Hadley is a self-described “Victorian,” unfashionable, spinsterish woman of 27. The Hadley we meet in the book’s first pages is not the woman we would picture with the Ernest Hemingway we know. Hadley Richardson, the titular Paris wife, was Hemingway’s first wife, and she narrates Paula McLain’s fictional recreation of their tumultuous years together.
And I have another confession: I loved it, too. Then The Paris Wife came out – and everyone loved it – so I thought I should give it a try. Not a sentence of The Old Man and the Sea.īefore you judge me, and deem me a bad librarian, let me just say this: Ernest was not required reading, either in high school or college, and who has time for things if they aren’t assigned in those busy times? And, once school was over, I felt like I didn’t need to read Hemingway – I’d heard enough about his books to feel like I already had. Readers, I have a confession: I have never read any Hemingway.
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