The Paris wife

Paula McLain First published 2011

About this book

Meeting through mutual friends in Chicago, Hadley is intrigued by brash "beautiful boy" Ernest Hemingway, and after a brief courtship and small wedding, they take off for Paris, where Hadley makes a convincing transformation from an overprotected child to a game and brave young woman who puts up with impoverished living conditions and shattering loneliness to prop up her husband’s career.

Subjects

  • american authors
  • authors' spouses
  • expatriate authors
  • fiction
  • marriage
  • new york times bestseller
  • nyt:hardcover_fiction=2011-07-30