num_pages: 400
description: A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.  Vogue Fascinating. . . . A detailed grittier portrait of the woman Hemingway loved and left.  Newsday Hadley Richardson and Ernest Hemingway were the golden couple of Paris in the twenties the center of an expatriate community boasting the likes of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas and James and Nora Joyce. In this haunting account of the young Hemingways Gioia Diliberto explores their passionate courtship their family life in Paris with baby Bumby and their thrilling adventurous relationshipa literary love story scarred by Hadleys loss of the only copy of Hemingways first novel and ultimately destroyed by a devastating mnage  trois on the French Riviera. Compelling illuminating poignant and deeply insightful Paris Without End provides a rare intimate glimpse of the writer who so fully captured the American imagination and the remarkable woman who inspired his passion and his artthe only woman Hemingway never stopped loving.
language: English
title: Paris Without End: The True Story of Hemingway's First Wife
publisher: Harper Perennial